For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
—George Washington, 1796History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
—Theodor Adorno, c. 1946Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1817What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCIf law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.
—Confucius, c. 500Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
—Ian Dury, 1977Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925Don’t hit a man at all if you can avoid it, but if you have to hit him, knock him out.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1916It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874By night an atheist half believes a God.
—Edward Young, c. 1745The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BC