Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1819
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So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
—Amiri Baraka, 1962Pushing someone toward liberty does not set her free; taking the chains off a prisoner does not give him freedom.
—Ken Bugul, 1982I never know quite when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, Dammit, Thurber, stop writing. She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph. Or my daughter will look up from the dinner table and ask, Is he sick? No, my wife says, he’s writing something.
—James Thurber, 1955No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978There are many civil questions that arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled.
—William Howard Taft, 1921Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCMoney speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
—Aphra Behn, 1677For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
—Herman Melville, 1851Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.
—Albert Camus, 1956Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600