Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
—Pierre Boulez, 1989
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If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1843We get a deal o’ useless things about us, only because we’ve got the money to spend.
—George Eliot, 1860Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
—Sigmund Freud, 1930The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
—Marianne Moore, 1935You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.
—Gustave Flaubert, c. 1880The deed is everything, the glory naught.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832Attend to earth,
for it is to earth that kings are truly wedded.
Enemies are so stimulating.
—Katharine Hepburn, 1969The more men are massed together, the more corrupt they become. Disease and vice are the sure results of overcrowded cities.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.
—Roman proverbThe gods play games with men as balls.
—Plautus, c. 200 BC