Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975
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Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCCommunities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
—Reinhold Niebuhr, 1944On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.
—Edward Bellamy, 1888All those who suffer in the world do so because of their desire for their own happiness.
—Shantideva, c. 750Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time.
To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.
—Albert Camus, 1951How sweet it is to have people point and say, “There he is.”
—Persius, c. 60If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1843Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1819