While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1983
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
—Arthur Miller, 1961The twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817My ideas are clear. My orders are precise. Within five years, Rome must appear marvelous to all the people of the world—vast, orderly, powerful, as in the time of the empire of Augustus.
—Benito Mussolini, 1929The art of invention grows young with the things invented.
—Francis Bacon, 1605Man has here two and a half minutes—one to smile, one to sigh, and half a one to love; for in the midst of this minute he dies.
—Jean Paul, 1795A friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Leviticus, c. 600 BCProfit is profit even in Mecca.
—Nigerian proverbThe law is established from above but becomes custom below.
—Su Zhe, c. 1100The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.
—Juvenal, c. 125Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934