Men are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do.
—W.H. Auden, 1946Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
—Edmund Burke, 1795‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747When arms speak, the laws are silent.
—Cicero, 52 BCIt is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966After each night we are emptier: our mysteries and our griefs have leaked away into our dreams.
—E.M. Cioran, 1949I went [to war] because I couldn’t help it. I didn’t want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.
—Louisa May Alcott, 1863Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
—Erica Jong, 1973Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
—Chinese proverbThe workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905