The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them.
—Denis Diderot, 1777
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The day unravels what the night has woven.
—Walter Benjamin, 1929Ocean. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1898I am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.
—Maximilien Robespierre, 1792I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
—H. Rap Brown, 1967True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924Civilization, a much-abused word, stands for a high matter quite apart from telephones and electric lights.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
—Donald Barthelme, 1964Whatever the pace of this technological revolution may be, the direction is clear: the lower rungs of the economic ladder are being lopped off.
—Bayard Rustin, 1965A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880