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The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms. 

—Frantz Fanon, 1961

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

—Saint Augustine, c. 390

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.

—Sylvia Plath, 1963

If I had been born a man, I would have conquered Europe. As I was born a woman, I exhausted my energy in tirades against fate and in eccentricities.

—Marie Bashkirtseff, 1884

Human happiness never remains long in the same place.

—Herodotus, c. 430 BC

My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

—Charles F. Kettering, 1946

The earth is beautiful and bright and kindly, but that is not all. The earth is also terrible and dark and cruel.

—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1970

Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.

—Albert Camus, 1956

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

—Veronica Wedgwood, 1946

Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.

—Joseph Joubert, 1791

Happiness does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.

—Democritus, c. 420 BC

Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.

—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

—Aleister Crowley, 1904