Commerce has made all winds her ministers.
—John Sterling, 1843
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The earth is beautiful and bright and kindly, but that is not all. The earth is also terrible and dark and cruel.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1970Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
—George Eliot, 1866To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honor or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
—Upton Sinclair, 1935Colonialism has meant selling our ore and being left with the holes.
—Samora Moisés Machel, c. 1976What water gives, water takes away.
—Portuguese proverbThe root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.
—Mencius, c. 270 BCThe world is wearied of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1870The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
—Tacitus, c. 117