My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
—Timothy Leary, 1966
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
—William Hazlitt, 1819Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.
—Eva Perón, 1949I am a living symbol of the white man’s fear.
—Winnie Mandela, 1985The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better, only the god knows.
—Socrates, 399 BCThere is no small pleasure in sweet water.
—Ovid, c. 10Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
—Fidel Castro, 1959
It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
—Jean de La Fontaine, 1668In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
—Mark Twain, 1897You must not grow used to making money out of everything. One sees more people ruined than one has seen preserved by shameful gains.
—Sophocles, c. 442 BCI have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
—Charles Lindbergh, 1948The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983