It’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
—Helen MacInnes, 1963
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All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCArt, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1928Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935Better no law than no law enforced.
—Danish proverbI am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.
—Maximilien Robespierre, 1792Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
—Rudy Giuliani, 1999There lurks in every human heart a desire of distinction which inclines every man first to hope and then to believe that nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
—Samuel Johnson, 1763There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
—Kathleen Norris, 1931My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
—Karl Kraus, c. 1910Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BC