People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.
—Robert Byrd, 2005
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The earth is beautiful and bright and kindly, but that is not all. The earth is also terrible and dark and cruel.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1970The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
—H.L. Mencken, 1921The only function of a school is to make self-education easier.
—Isaac Asimov, 1974A false report rides post.
—English proverbI quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCMedication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws—hygiene of the body and hygiene of the spirit—is the surest warrant for health and happiness.
—Harriot K. Hunt, 1856We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
—Tennessee Williams, 1953Refrigerators and television sets, or even rockets sent to the moon, do not change man into God.
—Czesław Miłosz, 1960An electoral choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die.
—George Jackson, 1971God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
—Pablo Picasso, 1964The brightest light burns the quickest.
—Olive Beatrice Muir, 1900The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better, only the god knows.
—Socrates, 399 BC