Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
—Pierre Boulez, 1989
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Unfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1932Years are nothing to me—they should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild nature, time is measured by seasons only—the bird does not know how old it is—the rose tree does not count its birthdays!
—Marie Corelli, 1911Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.
—The Book of Changes, c. 350 BCUnder all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1838I had rather be in a state of misery and envied for my supposed happiness than in a state of happiness and pitied for my supposed misery.
—Elizabeth Inchbald, 1793The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969An electoral choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die.
—George Jackson, 1971The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified heads, fills citified ears—as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk happy.
—Frank Lloyd Wright, 1958Life’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795Wit enables us to act rudely with impunity.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
—Samuel Johnson, 1776