There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894
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Communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
—John Berger, 1987A functioning police state needs no police.
—William S. Burroughs, 1959Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the grand climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
—Jean Baudrillard, 1987Man is a troublesome animal and therefore is not very manageable.
—Plato, c. 349 BCIt was lonesome, the leaving.
—Wetatonmi, c. 1877These useless men ought to be cut up and served at a banquet. I really believe that athletes have less intelligence than swine.
—Dio Chrysostom, c. 95Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
—Voltaire, 1769Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.
—Frederick Douglass, 1855All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.
—Albert Camus, 1951