A functioning police state needs no police.
—William S. Burroughs, 1959
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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
—Lorraine Hansberry, 1965Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
—Arthur Wellesley, c. 1830If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.
—William Blake, 1804I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
—Charles Lindbergh, 1948The young man must store up, the old man must use.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 63We get a deal o’ useless things about us, only because we’ve got the money to spend.
—George Eliot, 1860When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1918He who commands the sea has command of everything.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
—Upton Sinclair, 1935Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCIs this dying? Is this all? Is this all that I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear it!
—Cotton Mather, 1728