Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966
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Quotes
Who hears the fishes when they cry?
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1679Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
—Euripides, 431 BCTill taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.
—Lord Byron, 1819The boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.
—Plato, c. 348 BCIt is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
—Jean de La Fontaine, 1668The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
—Wallace Stevens, 1952At night comes counsel to the wise.
—Menander, c. 300 BCAn old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
—Plato, c. 360 BCBy and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955Machines do not run in order to enable men to live, but we resign ourselves to feeding men in order that they may serve the machines.
—Simone Weil, 1934Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
—William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847