The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
—Hermann Hesse, 1950
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There never was a good war or a bad peace.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1773I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1679As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.
—Will Self, 1994The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.
—George Moore, 1888A college degree is a social certificate, not a proof of competence.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1746Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.
—Charles de Gaulle, 1963Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942One great reason why many children abandon themselves wholly to silly sports and trifle away all their time insipidly is because they have found their curiosity baulked and their inquiries neglected.
—John Locke, 1693Men are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
—George W. Bush, 2004People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.
—Bayard Rustin, 1986