I am a living symbol of the white man’s fear.
—Winnie Mandela, 1985
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The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
—Italo Calvino, 1967Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1864Iron may break gold, but water remains whole.
—Ge Hong, c. 300If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1860Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
—Eleanor Roosevelt, 1942Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890The day unravels what the night has woven.
—Walter Benjamin, 1929Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1892A functioning police state needs no police.
—William S. Burroughs, 1959A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1732