We are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.
—Samuel Pepys, 1661
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.
—Barbara Kingsolver, 1990Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
—William Penn, 1693Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honor or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.
—Edith Konecky, 1976A brilliant boxing match, quicksilver in its motions, transpiring far more rapidly than the mind can absorb, can have the power that Emily Dickinson attributed to great poetry: you know it’s great when it takes the top of your head off.
—Joyce Carol Oates, 1987When arms speak, the laws are silent.
—Cicero, 52 BCPolitical power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
—Mao Zedong, 1938Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.
—Clover Adams, 1882To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864