Hunting is all that’s worth living for—all time is lost what is not spent in hunting—it is like the air we breathe—if we have it not we die—it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt.
—Robert Smith Surtees, 1843
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Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
—Rosa Luxemburg, 1918Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
—Tom Robbins, 1976No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1809The more men are massed together, the more corrupt they become. Disease and vice are the sure results of overcrowded cities.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762The mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.
—Isaac Asimov, 1988We cannot say what the woman might be physically, if the girl were not allowed all the freedom of the boy in romping, climbing, swimming, playing whoop and ball.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
—W.H. Auden, 1957Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
—Abraham Lincoln, c. 1858Keep no company with those whose position is high but whose morals are low.
—Ge Hong, c. 320Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
—William James, 1902To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation.
—Oliver Sacks, 2012