I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962
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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
—Paul Valéry, 1943Two crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake.
—Ovid, 10Whatsoever is, is in God.
—Benedict de Spinoza, 1677The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.
—Edward Bellamy, 1888If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide—because he kills not merely a man but a near relative—without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.
—Saint Augustine, c. 420The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
—Donald Barthelme, 1964Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money’s guest.
—Norman O. Brown, 1959Knowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon, 1597Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1758It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
—Upton Sinclair, 1935