You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
—Leon Trotsky
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We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
—Barbara Ward, 1972All revolutions devour their own children.
—Ernst Röhm, 1933Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839A jest breaks no bones.
—Samuel Johnson, 1781The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
—Amiri Baraka, 1962When arms speak, the laws are silent.
—Cicero, 52 BCThe discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
—Jules Renard, 1898A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbBecause the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.
—Confucius, c. 515 BC