Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.
—Dionysius of Halicarnassus, c. 20 BC
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
—Ulysses S. Grant, 1877Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the grand climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
—Jean Baudrillard, 1987Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
—Genesis, c. 900 BCSo many men, so many opinions.
—Terence, 161 BCWhat keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence, the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?
—Mary Renault, 1956I am weary of friends, and friendships are all monsters.
—Jonathan Swift, 1710You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015