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All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

—Max Born, 1968

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1944

We cannot say what the woman might be physically, if the girl were not allowed all the freedom of the boy in romping, climbing, swimming, playing whoop and ball.

—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

—Gaston Bachelard, 1960

No real friendship without absolute liberty.

—George Sand, 1866

Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

—Arnold Toynbee, 1948

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

You can steal a lot more with a computer than with a gun.

—Gina Smith, 1997

Drunkenness is the very sepulcher / Of man’s wit and his discretion.

—Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1390

The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920

All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full.

—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC

It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.

—Lewis Strauss, 1954