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I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

—Ray Bradbury, 1992

The law is far, the fist is near.

—Korean proverb

If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.

—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1843

What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60

This is Year Zero.

—Pol Pot, 1975

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

—Jonathan Swift, 1706

I hate the sight of monkeys; they remind me so of poor relations.

—Henry Luttrell, 1820

To 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 BC

The sea hath fish for every man.

—William Camden, 1605

A world is sooner destroyed than made.

—Thomas Burnet, 1684

I 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, 1940

Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.

—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816