At the start there’s always energy.
—Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006
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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
—Michel Foucault, 1975An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
—Maxim Gorky, 1902Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
—Albert Camus, c. 1940The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
—Jean Genet, 1983By night an atheist half believes a God.
—Edward Young, c. 1745To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891The earth is our existence, and our body is attached to the earth.
—Daulat Qazi, c. 1650History is a people’s memory, and without a memory man is demoted to the level of the lower animals.
—Malcolm X, 1964As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.
—Will Self, 1994The civilized man has built a coach but has lost the use of his feet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that.
—Mao Zedong, 1936