He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
—Molière, 1666
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In every human breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call love of freedom; it is impatient of oppression and pants for deliverance.
—Phillis Wheatley, 1774A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1732Night affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.
—John Taylor, 1750People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.
—Bayard Rustin, 1986When you name yourself, you always name another.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1926An ugly sight, a man who’s afraid.
—Jean Anouilh, 1944Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
—Xunzi, 250 BCGreeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.
—Zadie Smith, 2000All people have the common desire to be elevated in honor, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCChildren are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839Let us leave this Europe which never stops talking of Man yet massacres him at every one of its street corners, at every corner of the world.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.
—John Camden Hotten, 1859