The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941
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People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.
—Bayard Rustin, 1986Quarreling must lead to disorder, and disorder exhaustion.
—Xunzi, c. 250 BCOften the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?
—Andy Warhol, 1963Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?
—Alfred Hitchcock, 1962The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward VIII, 1957One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
—Oscar Wilde, 1894Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the grand climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
—Jean Baudrillard, 1987People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.
—James Baldwin, 1953There never was a good war or a bad peace.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1773