Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998
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If we pretend to respect the artist at all, we must allow him his freedom of choice, in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify. Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.
—Henry James, 1884The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
—Herman Melville, 1851If both what is before and what is after are in this same “now,” things which happened ten thousand years ago would be simultaneous with what has happened today, and nothing would be before or after anything else.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCAll things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
—Plotinus, c. 255Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
—William Hazlitt, 1821Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCSlang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.
—John Camden Hotten, 1859It’s only the futility of the first flood that prevents God from sending a second.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1794If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
—Francis Bacon, 1615Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8The period is not very remote when the benefits of a liberal and free commerce will, pretty generally, succeed to the devastations and horrors of war.
—George Washington, 1786