I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992
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The law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverbIf men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1843What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60This is Year Zero.
—Pol Pot, 1975No wise man ever wished to be younger.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706I hate the sight of monkeys; they remind me so of poor relations.
—Henry Luttrell, 1820To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCThe sea hath fish for every man.
—William Camden, 1605A world is sooner destroyed than made.
—Thomas Burnet, 1684I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.
—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1940Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816