I’ve got some shit I’m conservative about and some shit I’m liberal about. Crime—I’m conservative. Prostitution—I’m liberal.
—Chris Rock, 2008
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No time to marry, no time to settle down, I’m a young woman, and ain’t done runnin’ round.
—Bessie Smith, 1926Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978When arms speak, the laws are silent.
—Cicero, 52 BCThe foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Leviticus, c. 600 BCIt’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
—Helen MacInnes, 1963Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
—Louis Brandeis, 1928Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.
—Theognis, c. 550 BCThere is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort in a hospital.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1857All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
—Edmund Burke, 1796The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955No one’s serious at seventeen.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1870