All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.
—Max Born, 1968
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A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1944We cannot say what the woman might be physically, if the girl were not allowed all the freedom of the boy in romping, climbing, swimming, playing whoop and ball.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
—Gaston Bachelard, 1960No real friendship without absolute liberty.
—George Sand, 1866Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
—Arnold Toynbee, 1948A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903You can steal a lot more with a computer than with a gun.
—Gina Smith, 1997Drunkenness is the very sepulcher / Of man’s wit and his discretion.
—Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1390The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCIt is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.
—Lewis Strauss, 1954