No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915
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The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
—Dean Acheson, 1970Anyone who’s never watched somebody die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity.
—John Osborne, 1956Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013Language is the house of being. In its home human beings dwell. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.
—Martin Heidegger, 1949As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
—Francis Bacon, 1625In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
—John Ruskin, 1850It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
—Rudy Giuliani, 1999