A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
—Martin Luther King Jr., c. 1967
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The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
—Vladimir Nabokov, 1941Just as language no longer has anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
—Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903Every country has the government it deserves.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1811Modesty is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
—Abraham Lincoln, 1861A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851If you were to ask me if I’d ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I’d have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
—Herman Melville, 1851Jesters do oft prove prophets.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1605Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
—Alexander Pope, 1738Who lives in fear will never be a free man.
—Horace, 19 BC