He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935
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Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 45 BCWe get a deal o’ useless things about us, only because we’ve got the money to spend.
—George Eliot, 1860Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.
—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
—Fidel Castro, 1959
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
—Horace, c. 35 BCMany need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chawing a hunk of melon in the dust.
—Elizabeth Bowen, 1955Trade is a social act.
—John Stuart Mill, 1859Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
—Roger Ebert, 1998Oh, democracy! Whither are you leading us?
—Aristophanes, 414 BCPeople will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.
—Bayard Rustin, 1986