A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do.
—W.H. Auden, 1946
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Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
—Eleanor Roosevelt, 1942Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art—that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972Nature contains no one constant form.
—Paul-Henri Dietrich d’Holbach, 1770Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness.
—Thomas Paine, 1792Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
—Edmund Burke, 1765I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?
—Andy Warhol, 1963Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the grand climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
—Jean Baudrillard, 1987Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
—Charles Dickens, 1843Everyone lives by selling something.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
—Ellsworth Huntington, 1919