Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
—Sammy Davis Jr., 1965Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
—August Strindberg, 1886Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
—Havelock Ellis, 1921To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890As man disappears from sight, the land remains.
—Maori proverbA Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!
—Philip Roth, 1969Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
—Chinese proverbThe worship of opinion is, at this day, the established religion of the United States.
—Harriet Martineau, 1839It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding, when it can hold men’s hearts by hopes, when it cannot by satisfaction.
—Francis Bacon, 1625