Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
—Rosa Luxemburg, 1918
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
—Sammy Davis Jr., 1965Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1838Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCThe more corrupt the state, the more numerous its laws.
—Tacitus, c. 110Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839To teach is to learn twice over.
—Joseph Joubert, c. 1805Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it “the reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.” The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of “artist.”
—Edgar Allan Poe, 1849Some to the common pulpits, and cry out / “Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!”
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599Resorting to the law to resolve a dispute is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
—Quentin Crisp, 1984Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do—that was one of my favorite things about it—and when I first did it, I felt perverse.
—Diane Arbus, c. 1950