You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.
—William Randolph Hearst, 1898
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The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
—Erich Fromm, 1941I cannot bear a parent’s tears.
—Virgil, c. 25 BCThe less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986We cannot say what the woman might be physically, if the girl were not allowed all the freedom of the boy in romping, climbing, swimming, playing whoop and ball.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.
—Jean Baudrillard, c. 1987The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.
—Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1510It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
—Maya Angelou, 2011It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
—Cormac McCarthy, 2005