Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962
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To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
—Walter Pater, 1873Let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first.
—Frederick Douglass, 1878Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815Jokes are grievances.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1969He who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverbThat is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
—Willa Cather, 1918I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
—Magna Carta, 1215Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.
—Sharyn McCrumb, 1990I detest war. It spoils armies.
—Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, c. 1820I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
—Gregory VII, c. 1085