The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927
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This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
—Anna Sewell, 1877It is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
—James Hutton, 1795It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962I think heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of heaven here.
—Emily Dickinson, 1879How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.
—Cicero, 45 BCThe state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.
—Moses Mendelssohn, 1783Enemies are so stimulating.
—Katharine Hepburn, 1969All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
—Plotinus, c. 255The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
—Sylvia Plath, 1963The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.
—Francis Bacon, 1605