Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
—William James, 1902
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I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844An ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.
—Erasmus, 1511I have given up considering happiness as relevant.
—Edward Gorey, 1974Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977Whatsoever is, is in God.
—Benedict de Spinoza, 1677Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
—Roald Dahl, 1990I don’t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
—Woody Allen, 1971We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
—Aesop, c. 600 BCFear has a smell, as love does.
—Margaret Atwood, 1972Refrigerators and television sets, or even rockets sent to the moon, do not change man into God.
—Czesław Miłosz, 1960Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
—Herbert Hoover, 1936