To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.
—Albert Camus, 1951
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The more men are massed together, the more corrupt they become. Disease and vice are the sure results of overcrowded cities.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with the necessities.
—John Lothrop Motley, 1858I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.
—Giuseppe Verdi, 1900Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.
—German proverbHe who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.
—E. R. Dodds, 1951Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937In the Middle Ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
—Robert Runcie, 1988The past is always tense and the future, perfect.
—Zadie Smith, 2000One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.
—Phyllis Rose, 1991’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.
—Plautus, c. 180 BCI work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.
—John Maynard Keynes, 1917The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1962