Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972
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To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.
—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherUnderstanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Idolatry is the mother of all games.
—Novatian, c. 255I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one.
—Clarence Darrow, 1932Words pay no debts.
—William Shakespeare, 1601A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCDon’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
—Winston Churchill, 1939Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCWhile gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1983Wherever commerce prevails there will be an inequality of wealth, and wherever the latter does a simplicity of manners must decline.
—James Madison, 1783Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
—William James, 1902