Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1918
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Ah! Freedom is a noble thing!
—John Barbour, 1375Man punishes the action, but God the intention.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920Who hears the fishes when they cry?
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975The more religious a country is, the more crimes are committed in it.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1817One of the animals which a generous and sociable man would soonest become is a dog. A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character; he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.
—Leigh Hunt, 1834Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
—George Eliot, 1876In tampering with the earth, we tamper with a mystery.
—Jonathan Schell, 2000Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.
—Barbara Kingsolver, 1990There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
—Elias Canetti, 1960Journalists belong in the gutter, because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
—Gerald Priestland, 1988