Petty laws breed great crimes.
—Ouida, 1880
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I’m doomed to die, right? Why should I care if I go to Hades either with gout in my leg or a runner’s grace? Plenty of people will carry me there.
—Nicharchus, c. 90I have often been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
—Thucydides, c. 404 BCVery shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.
—Winston Churchill, 1948Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.
—Mark Twain, 1873Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things—but each according to its nature—and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1821Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.
—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BCI have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.
—Walt Whitman, 1842Life is no way to treat an animal.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742