Revolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933
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When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.
—Desmond Tutu, 1984Do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.
—Laozi, c. 500 BCA frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1852Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1817It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BCThese useless men ought to be cut up and served at a banquet. I really believe that athletes have less intelligence than swine.
—Dio Chrysostom, c. 95Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881