I am weary of friends, and friendships are all monsters.
—Jonathan Swift, 1710
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Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1821The bathing was so delightful this morning, and Molly so pressing with me to enjoy myself, that I believe I stayed in rather too long, as since the middle of the day I have felt unreasonably tired. I shall be more careful another time, and shall not bathe tomorrow as I had before intended.
—Jane Austen, 1804To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.
—Quintus Fabius Maximus, c. 203 BCI think that to get under the surface and really appreciate the beauty of any country, one has to go there poor.
—Grace Moore, 1944Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 1969Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
—Florence King, 1989Vox populi, vox humbug.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986