It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
—Maya Angelou, 2011
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Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
—Plato, c. 378 BCI began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
—Fidel Castro, 1959
Shamelessness is the shame of being without shame.
—Mencius, c. 290 BCIt is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951Men are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Now there is fame! Of all—hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public—fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation by God of the artist. It is sad. It is true.
—Pablo Picasso, c. 1961The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and, secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1879Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.
—Che Guevara, 1965Democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
—Margaret Halsey, 1946I have loved war too well.
—Louis XIV, 1715The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC