Quotes

Is there no way out of the mind?

—Sylvia Plath, 1962

If there is a technological advance without a social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

—Michael Harrington, 1962

Jokes are grievances.

—Marshall McLuhan, 1969

A jest breaks no bones.

—Samuel Johnson, 1781

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

—Gustave Flaubert, 1871

Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.

—The Upanishads, c. 800 BC

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

—H. Rap Brown, 1967

Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature. Laughter hath only a scornful tickling.

—Philip Sidney, 1582

By night an atheist half believes a God.

—Edward Young, c. 1745

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

—Cyril Connolly, 1944

Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.

—Jean Genet, 1986

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1774

Seek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.

—Rumi, c. 1260

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