To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1885
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Among famous traitors of history, one might mention the weather.
—Ilka Chase, 1969my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
The more men are massed together, the more corrupt they become. Disease and vice are the sure results of overcrowded cities.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1480I’ve got some shit I’m conservative about and some shit I’m liberal about. Crime—I’m conservative. Prostitution—I’m liberal.
—Chris Rock, 2008Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847Idolatry is the mother of all games.
—Novatian, c. 255Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886It’s easy to be independent when you’ve got money. But to be independent when you haven’t got a thing—that’s the Lord’s test.
—Mahalia Jackson, 1966The sea receives us in a proper way only when we are without clothes.
—Pliny the Elder, 77