I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994
Archive
Quotes
It is not right for a ruler who has the nation in his charge, a man with so much on his mind, to sleep all night.
—Homer, c. 750 BCSomeone will remember us
I say
even in another time.
Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
—Aldo Leopold, 1933Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.
—Charles de Gaulle, 1963The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.
—Herodotus, c. 425 BCDo not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
—Hebrews, c. 60In every man is a wild beast; most of them don’t know how to hold it back, and the majority give it full rein when they are not restrained by terror of law.
—Frederick the Great, 1759The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.
—Winston Churchill, 1943I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
—Alexander the Great, c. 323 BCThe fact is certain because it is impossible.
—Tertullian, c. 200Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599