Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890
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Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain distinction and animosity between nations.
—William Robertson, 1769No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
—The BibleI have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
—Agnes Repplier, 1916Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.
—Erich Fromm, 1947Envy is the basis of democracy.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
—Thomas Szasz, 1970I’ve got some shit I’m conservative about and some shit I’m liberal about. Crime—I’m conservative. Prostitution—I’m liberal.
—Chris Rock, 2008Trade is a social act.
—John Stuart Mill, 1859Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BC