There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.
—Helen Keller, 1928
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He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.
—E. R. Dodds, 1951Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957In all the ancient states and empires, those who had the shipping, had the wealth.
—William Petty, 1690The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
—Horace, c. 25 BCI shall embrace my rival—until I suffocate him.
—Jean Racine, 1669We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
—Aesop, c. 600 BCThe law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverbThe planet keeps to the astronomer’s timetable, but the wind still bloweth almost where it listeth.
—John Henry Poynting, 1899I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
—Sarah Williams, 1868Today’s city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.
—Martin Oppenheimer, 1969To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. One may have that condition by fits only.
—George Eliot, c. 1872The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835