The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1908
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Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness.
—Thomas Paine, 1792The Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.
—Fr. Antonio Monserrate, 1590If you stain clear water with filth, you will never find a drink.
—Aeschylus, 458 BCDrugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
—Tecumseh, 1810To outwit an enemy is not only just and glorious but profitable and sweet.
—Plutarch, c. 100Life is no way to treat an animal.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005If you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.
—John Ruskin, 1865Without music life would be a mistake.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971A college degree is a social certificate, not a proof of competence.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911