Oh, democracy! Whither are you leading us?
—Aristophanes, 414 BC
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All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812Communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665Today’s friend may be tomorrow’s foe.
—Sophocles, 440 BCBusiness? Why, it’s very simple; business is other people’s money.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1857What is death? A scary mask. Take it off—see, it doesn’t bite.
—Epictetus, c. 110Religion! How it dominates man’s mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion. But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.
—Emma Goldman, 1910One need merely visit the marketplace and the graveyard to determine whether a city is in both physical and metaphysical order.
—Ernst Jünger, 1977The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
—Kathleen Norris, 1931Drink today and drown all sorrow; / You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.
—John Fletcher, 1625