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—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903
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The more laws, the more lawbreakers.
—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BCIf you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
—Margaret Atwood, 2005God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
—Maxim Gorky, 1913Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
—George Eliot, 1866The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977I am weary of friends, and friendships are all monsters.
—Jonathan Swift, 1710The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
—Cormac McCarthy, 2005An American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840