A world is sooner destroyed than made.
—Thomas Burnet, 1684
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
—John Berger, 1972Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
—Veronica Wedgwood, 1946The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.
—Mark Twain, 1873The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.
—Théophile Gautier, c. 1835I proclaim night more truthful than the day.
—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
—Brigitte Bardot, 1989A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.
—Ecclesiasticus, c. 180 BCAlas! We are ridiculous animals.
—Horace Walpole, 1777Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
—Tertullian, c. 215Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.
—John Camden Hotten, 1859Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
—Carl Sandburg, 1936