If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
—Francis Bacon, 1615
Archive
Quotes
Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and oneself anew.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1920The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900By night an atheist half believes a God.
—Edward Young, c. 1745God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.
—The Qur’an, c. 620It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.
—Helen Keller, 1928One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCA merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.
—Ecclesiasticus, c. 180 BCMachines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.
—Sharyn McCrumb, 1990