I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
—H. Rap Brown, 1967
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Memory is necessary for all operations of reasoning.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1658Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1787The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983Darkness endows the small and ordinary ones among mankind with poetical power.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874Where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
—George Santayana, c. 1905Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BCIn every human breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call love of freedom; it is impatient of oppression and pants for deliverance.
—Phillis Wheatley, 1774A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified heads, fills citified ears—as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk happy.
—Frank Lloyd Wright, 1958After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
—John Huston, 1950I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863