Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603
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Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCThe surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
—Germaine Greer, 1970If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and, secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1879Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the grand climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
—Jean Baudrillard, 1987Some nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.
—L.M. Montgomery, 1927How can we bear misfortune most easily? If we see our enemies faring worse.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 585 BCI think it makes small difference to the dead if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All this is an empty glorification left for those who live.
—Euripides, 415 BCOnce any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
—Germaine Greer, 1970The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
—Wendell Berry, 1983Mammon, n. The god of the world’s leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911