Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.
—Jean Baudrillard, c. 1987
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Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
—Germaine Greer, 1970Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605I’ve got some shit I’m conservative about and some shit I’m liberal about. Crime—I’m conservative. Prostitution—I’m liberal.
—Chris Rock, 2008I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCAnd your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988