The Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.
—Fr. Antonio Monserrate, 1590
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Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world: it gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. The picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
—Susan B. Anthony, 1896All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.
—Max Born, 1968There is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
—Sammy Davis Jr., 1965To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1885Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.
—Charles Lamb, 1810I hate the sight of monkeys; they remind me so of poor relations.
—Henry Luttrell, 1820A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
—Amiri Baraka, 1962Why has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.
—Benjamin Franklin, c. 1732Years are nothing to me—they should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild nature, time is measured by seasons only—the bird does not know how old it is—the rose tree does not count its birthdays!
—Marie Corelli, 1911