Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891
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Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995That obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.
—Ibn Gabirol, 1040Strangers are an endangered species.
—Adrienne Rich, 1980The mill will never grind with water that is past.
—Daniel McCallum, 1870Knowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon, 1597Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
—Vegetius, c. 385Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth, or the Gout will seize you.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1734Great cities must ever be centers of light and darkness, the home of the best and the worst of our race, holding within themselves the highest talent for good and evil.
—Matthew Hale Smith, 1868Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCThe work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
—André Breton, 1937What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
—Carina Chocano, 2012