The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971
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I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.
—Alice James, 1889Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.
—Jean Baudrillard, c. 1987There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
—Nancy Spain, 1956Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1886Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844Scandal begins where the police leave off.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1964Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.
—Juvenal, c. 121Whoever gulps down wine as a horse gulps down water is called a Scythian.
—Athenaeus, c. 230I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
—Anaïs Nin, 1950