When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, “He is better off.”
—Edgar Watson Howe, 1911
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Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the grand climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
—Jean Baudrillard, 1987For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
—Richard Feynman, 1986All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCThe thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home.
—Virgil, c. 30 BCThere is no happiness like that of a young couple in a little house they have built themselves in a place of beauty and solitude.
—Annie Proulx, 2008I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
—Gregory VII, c. 1085The man in constant fear is every day condemned.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCThe 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, 1961The tune I remember, could I but keep the words.
—Virgil, 38 BCThe elephant, although a gross beast, is yet the most decent and most sensible of any other upon earth. Although he never changes his female, and hath so tender a love for her whom he hath chosen, yet he never couples with her but at the end of every three years, and then only for the space of five days.
—St. Francis de Sales, 1609In all the ancient states and empires, those who had the shipping, had the wealth.
—William Petty, 1690