Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.
—James Baldwin, 1953There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
—Madame de Sévigné, 1671If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.
—Rebecca West, 1939Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.
—Clover Adams, 1882Revolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money’s guest.
—Norman O. Brown, 1959I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1657Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.
—Juvenal, c. 121