Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
—Mao Zedong, 1938
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Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCLet us leave this Europe which never stops talking of Man yet massacres him at every one of its street corners, at every corner of the world.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961Moderation in all things.
—Terence, 166 BCLanguage is the house of being. In its home human beings dwell. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.
—Martin Heidegger, 1949If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910Better a thousand enemies outside the house than one inside.
—Arabic proverbI look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BCThe gods play games with men as balls.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCIt is far, far better and much safer to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCWe should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
—John Locke, 1690my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing