Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.
—Shirley Chisholm, 1970
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.
—Eric Hodgins, 1964When poets don’t know what to say and have completely given up on the play, just like a finger, they lift the machine and the spectators are satisfied.
—Antiphanes, c. 350 BCLet the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
—William Penn, 1693I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1891The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.
—Sharyn McCrumb, 1990I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCNothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
—Albert Camus, c. 1940To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.
—Albert Camus, 1951Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1898