When arms speak, the laws are silent.
—Cicero, 52 BC
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Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
—Arnold Toynbee, 1948To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
—John Buchan, 1940We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
—Barbara Ward, 1972A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922In a true democracy, everyone can be upper-class and live in Connecticut.
—Lisa Birnbach, 1980And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.
—Lord Byron, 1822What water gives, water takes away.
—Portuguese proverbAs he brews, so shall he drink.
—Ben Jonson, 1598I proclaim night more truthful than the day.
—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956Who lives in fear will never be a free man.
—Horace, 19 BCTo know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968“Work” does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1964