No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
—Roman proverb
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Divine nature gave the fields; human art built the cities.
—Marcus Terentius Varro, c. 70 BCEverybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BCFor most of us, nighttime dreaming brings us closer to our identities and our power than any activity in the waking world.
—Walter Mosley, 2000A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1944Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1928Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?
—Stanisław Lem, 1961The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
—Leon TrotskyTo make laws that man cannot and will not obey serves to bring all law into contempt.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1860Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.
—Pablo Picasso, 1929If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper that did his job well.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1954