The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971
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Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury—to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
—Albert Einstein, 1931Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”
—Book of Ecclesiastes, 225 BCPeople living deeply have no fear of death.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
—H. Rap Brown, 1967The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
—E.B. White, 1944If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1513When a coward sees a man he can beat, he becomes hungry for a fight.
—Chinua Achebe, 1960Envy and hatred are apt to blind the eyes and render them unable to behold things as they are.
—Margaret of Valois, c. 1600True friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.
—Isabel Allende, 2000