The history of the land has been written very largely in water.
—John Hodgdon Bradley Jr., 1935
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Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
—Arnold Toynbee, 1948The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sightseeing.”
—Daniel Boorstin, 1961When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957I doubt that we have any right to pity the dead for their own sakes.
—Lord Byron, 1817Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.
—Moses Mendelssohn, 1783Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1928Years 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, 1911Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
—Xunzi, 250 BCDo good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
—Alexander Pope, 1738Democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
—Margaret Halsey, 1946When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.
—Desmond Tutu, 1984