For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC
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Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776Envy and hatred are apt to blind the eyes and render them unable to behold things as they are.
—Margaret of Valois, c. 1600The more men are massed together, the more corrupt they become. Disease and vice are the sure results of overcrowded cities.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the inclination of your heart and the desire of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 200 BCGod is a concept by which we measure our pain.
—John Lennon, 1970He who commands the sea has command of everything.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCThe man in constant fear is every day condemned.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCIt is impossible to tell which of the two dispositions we find in men is more harmful in a republic, that which seeks to maintain an established position or that which has none but seeks to acquire it.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1515Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
—Jane Austen, 1815Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
—Veronica Wedgwood, 1946