One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BC
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Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
—Carl Sandburg, 1936It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
—Maya Angelou, 2011There is something stirring in the way civilization gapes like a savage at the achievements of nature.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Friendship’s a noble name, ’tis love refined.
—Susanna Centlivre, 1703The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command.
—Alexander of Tralles, c. 600Let us leave this Europe which never stops talking of Man yet massacres him at every one of its street corners, at every corner of the world.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961They 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. 620One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
—George Santayana, c. 1914I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
—Gore Vidal, 1973I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
—George Borrow, 1843Envy is the basis of democracy.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast chaos and confusion of books; we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
—Robert Burton, 1621