There was a great deal of drinking among us but little drunkenness. We all seemed to feel that Prohibition was a personal affront and that we had a moral duty to undermine it.
—Elizabeth Anderson, 1969
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There is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943The mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.
—Isaac Asimov, 1988In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
—Michel Foucault, 1975Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCAlmsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.
—Eva Perón, 1949In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1787Knowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon, 1597Egypt was the mother of magicians.
—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract—teach him to deduct.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981Man punishes the action, but God the intention.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966