We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
—Barbara Ward, 1972
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Business is other people’s money.
—Delphine de Girardin, 1852A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
—Martin Luther King Jr., c. 1967Unfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1932I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
—Sarah Williams, 1868’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.
—Cotton Mather, 1693If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it by conversation.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1813my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
The envious die not once, but as often as the envied win applause.
—Baltasar Gracián, 1647The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
—Woody Allen, 1979Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
—Denis Diderot, 1774