Democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
—Margaret Halsey, 1946
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Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
—Charles M. Allen, 1967The art of invention grows young with the things invented.
—Francis Bacon, 1605While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1983A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
—Martin Luther King Jr., c. 1967It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
—The BibleNothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938It was lonesome, the leaving.
—Wetatonmi, c. 1877I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1789Strangers are an endangered species.
—Adrienne Rich, 1980Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
—Oscar Wilde, 1894