People react to fear, not love—they don’t teach that in Sunday school, but it’s true.
—Richard Nixon, 1975
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There is no profit without another’s loss.
—Roman proverbNo lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BCAs usual, what we call “progress” is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
—Havelock Ellis, 1914Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCReal friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the inclination of your heart and the desire of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 200 BCI don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994At night comes counsel to the wise.
—Menander, c. 300 BCIt is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1891What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence, the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?
—Mary Renault, 1956Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913