Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.
—Book of Samuel, c. 550 BC
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The 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, 1783Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.
—H.L. Mencken, 1920He who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverbThe more laws, the more lawbreakers.
—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BCA woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands.
—Lord Byron, 1812Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.
—Clover Adams, 1882One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949The earth is our existence, and our body is attached to the earth.
—Daulat Qazi, c. 1650Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
—Roger Ebert, 1998Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962