Some to the common pulpits, and cry out / “Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!”
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599
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One of the things men should most strive to do is win a good reputation and see that no one questions it.
—Juan Manuel, 1335The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.
—George Moore, 1888I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
—Willa Cather, 1915The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969Had Cleopatra’s nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have changed.
—Blaise Pascal, 1658Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
—Pliny the Elder, c. 77Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
—Jules Renard, 1898The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.
—Catherine the Great, c. 1796The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984There is no happiness like that of a young couple in a little house they have built themselves in a place of beauty and solitude.
—Annie Proulx, 2008