The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905
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Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
—Horace, c. 25 BCThere must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
—Sylvia Plath, 1963By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCLittle folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCIt costs a lot to make a person look this cheap.
—Dolly Parton, 1994An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.
—Epicurus, c. 250 BCI have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
—Michelangelo Antonioni, 1967The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
—John Berger, 1987The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1908Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939