Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
—Saint Augustine, 397
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When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005The sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
—Anne Sexton, 1971If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.
—Raymond Chandler, 1945Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCAll water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
—Toni Morrison, 1987To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891If there is a technological advance without a social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
—Michael Harrington, 1962A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
—Amiri Baraka, 1962The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them.
—Denis Diderot, 1777Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738