The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1908
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A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
—P.D. James, 1992Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
—Jane Austen, 1811Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.
—Pablo Picasso, 1929If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do—that was one of my favorite things about it—and when I first did it, I felt perverse.
—Diane Arbus, c. 1950What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!
—Rachel Field, 1939It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth.
—Francis Picabia, 1949