Whatever 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, 1965
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The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right when they act in community. Religious communities are a requirement of the social nature both of man and of religion itself.
—Pope Paul VI, 1965Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.
—Peter Hitchcock, 2010Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929A college degree is a social certificate, not a proof of competence.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!
—George H. W. Bush, 1990An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
—Plato, c. 360 BCGive me chastity and continence, but not just now.
—Saint Augustine, 397Memory is the only
afterlife I can understand.
It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
—Maya Angelou, 2011I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.
—Herman Melville, 1853Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930