No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915
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Life is no way to treat an animal.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art—that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
—Kathleen Norris, 1931It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1891A bull contents himself with one meadow, and one forest is enough for a thousand elephants; but the little body of a man devours more than all other living creatures.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 64A bad reputation is easy to come by, painful to bear, and difficult to clear.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCBe temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth, or the Gout will seize you.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1734The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893Envy and hatred are apt to blind the eyes and render them unable to behold things as they are.
—Margaret of Valois, c. 1600