Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
—Xunzi, 250 BC
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It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.
—Lewis Strauss, 1954Whatever the pace of this technological revolution may be, the direction is clear: the lower rungs of the economic ladder are being lopped off.
—Bayard Rustin, 1965Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
—Louis Brandeis, 1928Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
—Sigmund Freud, 1930The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
—H.G. Wells, 1905All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
—Toni Morrison, 1987Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.
—Derek Walcott, 1986Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967A bull contents himself with one meadow, and one forest is enough for a thousand elephants; but the little body of a man devours more than all other living creatures.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 64What is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BC