Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995
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They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
—Martin Luther, c. 1530I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
—Fidel Castro, 1959
Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1758I curse the night, yet doth from day me hide.
—William Drummond, 1616Commerce has made all winds her ministers.
—John Sterling, 1843The law is not the same at morning and at night.
—George Herbert, c. 1633The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
—Jean Genet, 1983In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
—Voltaire, 1764Epitaph, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747