The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770
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The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.
—Romalyn Ante, 2020You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
—Henrik Ibsen, 1882Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939Religion! 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, 1910Freedom of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one.
—A.J. Liebling, 1960The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
—P.G. Wodehouse, 1929The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward VIII, 1957A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.
—Ben Jonson, 1633Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949