Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938
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I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863They say, “We only have the life of this world. We die and we live, and nothing destroys us but time.” Yet, not true knowledge have they of this—only belief.
—The Qur’an, c. 620Pushing someone toward liberty does not set her free; taking the chains off a prisoner does not give him freedom.
—Ken Bugul, 1982We wish away whole years, and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.
—Joseph Addison, 1711Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.
—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
—Aldo Leopold, 1933We do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.
—Horace, 20 BCThe young man must store up, the old man must use.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 63What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905Dread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998