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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
—Erica Jong, 1973The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
—George Santayana, 1905It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse—the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.
—Cicero, c. 44 BCMan’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
—Reinhold Niebuhr, 1944There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983What is the city but the people?
—William Shakespeare, 1608Everyone lives by selling something.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892The mansion of modern freedoms stands on an ever-expanding base of fossil-fuel use.
—Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2008Moderation in all things.
—Terence, 166 BCNo poems can please long, nor live, that are written by water drinkers.
—Horace, 35 BCTo achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
—Jean Genet, 1949The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.
—Moses Mendelssohn, 1783