A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
—Ralph Nader, 2000
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All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.
—Jack London, 1912I came upon no wine, / So wonderful as thirst.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1923Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.
—Lawrence Durrell, 1957It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1891A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn’t go.
—Alexander Woollcott, c. 1935Why has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787Man’s great mission is not to conquer nature by main force but to cooperate with her intelligently but lovingly for his own purposes.
—Lewis Mumford, 1962What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
—Alexander Pope, 1712One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
—James Russell Lowell, c. 1865Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
—Voltaire, 1769