No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978
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A bull contents himself with one meadow, and one forest is enough for a thousand elephants; but the little body of a man devours more than all other living creatures.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 64The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
—James Joyce, 1922Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1821I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The BibleSome nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.
—L.M. Montgomery, 1927No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.
—R.D. Laing, 1967We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
—John Locke, 1690I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
—Samuel Johnson, 1791