I’ve got some shit I’m conservative about and some shit I’m liberal about. Crime—I’m conservative. Prostitution—I’m liberal.
—Chris Rock, 2008
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No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
—Magna Carta, 1215The history of the land has been written very largely in water.
—John Hodgdon Bradley Jr., 1935Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.
—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BCIs this dying? Is this all? Is this all that I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear it!
—Cotton Mather, 1728I was born without knowing why, I have lived without knowing why, and I am dying without either knowing why or how.
—Pierre Gassendi, 1655As man disappears from sight, the land remains.
—Maori proverbRevolution begins in putting on bright colors.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
—Chinese proverbGo to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.
—Matsuo Basho, c. 1685If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
—H. Rap Brown, 1967Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940