A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
—P.D. James, 1992
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Civilization, a much-abused word, stands for a high matter quite apart from telephones and electric lights.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
—Joseph Addison, 1711A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
—Horace, c. 25 BCDrugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherThe mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.
—Isaac Asimov, 1988A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
—Arthur Miller, 1961