I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992
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Revolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
—Victor Hugo, 1862Good men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.
—Joseph Joubert, 1791Wherever commerce prevails there will be an inequality of wealth, and wherever the latter does a simplicity of manners must decline.
—James Madison, 1783Why has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that.
—Mao Zedong, 1936We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!
—Humphrey Gilbert, 1583The severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.
—Saadi, 1258Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610Men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BCYou cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.
—Walter Lippmann, 1913