Journalists belong in the gutter, because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
—Gerald Priestland, 1988
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If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
—Samuel Johnson, 1777War to the castles; peace to the cottages.
—Nicolas Chamfort, 1790Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
—Thucydides, 410 BCWe die of comfort and by conflict live.
—May Sarton, 1953Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, / And say my glory was I had such friends.
—W.B. Yeats, 1937What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
—Michel Foucault, 1975I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830I love everyone now that I have gray hair.
—Polatkin, c. 1855What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast chaos and confusion of books; we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
—Robert Burton, 1621