In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951
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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
—Henry Miller, 1945The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live.
—Anatole Broyard, 1989Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 63 BCDemocracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
—Margaret Halsey, 1946Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCMan, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCThe man in constant fear is every day condemned.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCWhat is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
—Erasmus, 1515If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1918