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—Indira Gandhi, 1955
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An American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840The happy ending is our national belief.
—Mary McCarthy, 1947Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
—Reinhold Niebuhr, 1944To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.
—Albert Camus, 1951Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
—Chinese proverbPlay, wherein persons of condition, especially ladies, waste so much of their time, is a plain instance to me that men cannot be perfectly idle; they must be doing something, for how else could they sit so many hours toiling at that which generally gives more vexation than delight to people whilst they are actually engaged in it?
—John Locke, 1693Anyone who doesn’t know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1821What man was ever content with one crime?
—Juvenal, c. 125The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.
—Lester Bangs, 1971There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BCAnimals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857“Work” does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1964