The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
—Tacitus, c. 117
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All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.
—Jack London, 1912It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
—Jean Genet, 1949The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
—Simone Weil, 1947The more corrupt the state, the more numerous its laws.
—Tacitus, c. 110Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
—H.G. Wells, 1920Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of the others; those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows and, looking at each other with grief and despair, await their turn. This is an image of the human condition.
—Blaise Pascal, 1669We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCFear has a smell, as love does.
—Margaret Atwood, 1972