Scandal begins where the police leave off.
—Karl Kraus, 1909
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The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1962A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.
—Karl Kraus, 1909The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.
—Moses Mendelssohn, 1783I am a living symbol of the white man’s fear.
—Winnie Mandela, 1985As matron and mistress will differ in temper and tone, so will the friend be distinct from the faithless parasite.
—Horace, c. 20 BCThere is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCTo know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren’t people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.
—Jack Kerouac, 1957Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
—Pierre Boulez, 1989No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706There is no small pleasure in sweet water.
—Ovid, c. 10