I am a living symbol of the white man’s fear.
—Winnie Mandela, 1985
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All pain is one malady with many names.
—Antiphanes, c. 400 BCLaws, like houses, lean on one another.
—Edmund Burke, 1765To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbPushing someone toward liberty does not set her free; taking the chains off a prisoner does not give him freedom.
—Ken Bugul, 1982Punishment is a sort of medicine.
—Aristotle, c. 340 BCWhen we define democracy now, it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1941Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1843It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.
—Euripides, 412 BCHappiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.
—Fernand Braudel, 1979Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions, as it were, by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
—Elizabeth Charles, 1862Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829