We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.
—Winston Churchill, 1948
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I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say—your professional poets, I mean—there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1810A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
—George Eliot, 1876Most men employ the first years of their life in making the last miserable.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 30 BCWhen the physician said to him, “You have lived to be an old man,” he said, “That is because I never employed you as my physician.”
—Pausanias, c. 450 BCI know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588Friendship! Sir, there can be no such thing without an equality.
—George Farquhar, 1702The various modes of religion which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosophers equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.
—Edward Gibbon, 1776Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
—Paul Johnson, 1989