Whenever in history equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.
—Mary McCarthy, 1971
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Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972An electoral choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die.
—George Jackson, 1971What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?
—Ovid, c. 10An American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will.
—Slogan of the National Labor Union of the United States, 1866Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949He that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600Do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.
—Laozi, c. 500 BCNo nation was ever ruined by trade.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1774Repetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880