Envy and hatred are apt to blind the eyes and render them unable to behold things as they are.
—Margaret of Valois, c. 1600
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What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.
—Frederick Douglass, 1855The worship of opinion is, at this day, the established religion of the United States.
—Harriet Martineau, 1839’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?
—Thomas Browne, 1642Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
—William Wycherley, 1675Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.
—Albert Camus, 1956Had Cleopatra’s nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have changed.
—Blaise Pascal, 1658You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.
—William Randolph Hearst, 1898Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.
—Herophilus, c. 290 BCUntil you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
—Margaret Mitchell, 1936It is very foolish to attack one’s enemy openly if one can injure him in secret.
—Giambattista Giraldi, 1543A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
—Aldous Huxley, 1934