Industrialism is the religion with “the machine” as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.
—Dora Russell, 1983
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Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.
—Eva Perón, 1949Life is no way to treat an animal.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1885Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
—George Orwell, 1944Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.
—Confucius, c. 515 BCWit enables us to act rudely with impunity.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797The belly is the teacher of the arts and bestower of invention.
—Persius, c. 55I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902Drink today and drown all sorrow; / You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.
—John Fletcher, 1625Is it a fact—or have I dreamed it—that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
—Martin Luther, c. 1530