Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998
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I am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.
—Maximilien Robespierre, 1792The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953Those who are awake have a world that is one and common, but each of those who are asleep turns aside into his own particular world.
—Heraclitus, c. 500 BCAnimals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men, but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
—Joseph Addison, 1711If not us, who? If not now, when?
—Czech slogan, 1989A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.
—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right when they act in community. Religious communities are a requirement of the social nature both of man and of religion itself.
—Pope Paul VI, 1965Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.
—Che Guevara, 1965Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BC