The mansion of modern freedoms stands on an ever-expanding base of fossil-fuel use.
—Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2008
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If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.
—Confucius, c. 500The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.
—Robert Frost, 1939It is impossible to translate the poets. Can you translate music?
—Voltaire, c. 1732As he brews, so shall he drink.
—Ben Jonson, 1598Don’t try to make a profit on a bad trade; just try to find the best place to get out.
—Linda Bradford Raschke, 1992Secrecy lies at the very core of power.
—Elias Canetti, 1960The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward VIII, 1957God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582Alas! We are ridiculous animals.
—Horace Walpole, 1777To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.
—Eugenia Sheppard, 1960It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
—Thucydides, 410 BCMan is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1836