Mammon, n. The god of the world’s leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911
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There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.
—Walter Bagehot, 1863Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
—Jane Austen, 1815Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966The history of the land has been written very largely in water.
—John Hodgdon Bradley Jr., 1935What is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCCharity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
—Charles Dickens, 1843One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.
—Plautus, c. 180 BCIt’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
—Maya Angelou, 2011Anyone who in discussion quotes authority uses his memory rather than his intellect.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
—Jean Genet, 1949