Industrialism is the religion with “the machine” as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.
—Dora Russell, 1983
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Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world: it gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. The picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
—Susan B. Anthony, 1896One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
—Oscar Wilde, 1894Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation.
—Oliver Sacks, 2012Modern life is often a mechanical oppression, and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1935If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1513Man punishes the action, but God the intention.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
—Henry Clay, 1842Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
—William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.
—Albert Camus, 1956One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942