One religion is as true as another.
—Robert Burton, 1621
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I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
—Gore Vidal, 1973A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
—Ralph Nader, 2000Play, wherein persons of condition, especially ladies, waste so much of their time, is a plain instance to me that men cannot be perfectly idle; they must be doing something, for how else could they sit so many hours toiling at that which generally gives more vexation than delight to people whilst they are actually engaged in it?
—John Locke, 1693Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.
—Judge Learned Hand, 1944Journalists belong in the gutter, because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
—Gerald Priestland, 1988The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 43 BCMan’s great mission is not to conquer nature by main force but to cooperate with her intelligently but lovingly for his own purposes.
—Lewis Mumford, 1962Man and animals are really the conduit of food, the sepulcher of animals, and resting place of the dead, one causing the death of the other, making themselves the covering for the corruption of other dead bodies.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
—Sigmund Freud, 1930Those who are awake have a world that is one and common, but each of those who are asleep turns aside into his own particular world.
—Heraclitus, c. 500 BCA god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
—Pliny the Elder, c. 77