If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991
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A joke is at most a temporary rebellion against virtue, and its aim is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.
—George Orwell, 1945Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?
—Stanisław Lem, 1961A first-class man subsists on the matter he destroys.
—Saul Bellow, 1989God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582Words pay no debts.
—William Shakespeare, 1601We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
—Evelyn Waugh, 1963It costs a lot to make a person look this cheap.
—Dolly Parton, 1994The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
—Voltaire, 1764I am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.
—Maximilien Robespierre, 1792I cannot live without books, but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1815Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.
—Peter Hitchcock, 2010