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An electoral choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die.

—George Jackson, 1971

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

—Alvin Toffler, 1970

In the Middle Ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.

—Robert Runcie, 1988

Fear has a smell, as love does.

—Margaret Atwood, 1972

Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.

—Joseph Joubert, 1791

Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.

—Horace Walpole, 1745

He that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.

—Francis Bacon, c. 1600

If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.

—George W. Bush, 2005

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

—H. Rap Brown, 1967

When arms speak, the laws are silent.

—Cicero, 52 BC

I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.

—Sarah Williams, 1868

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

—Oscar Wilde, 1894

And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BC