No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762
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These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1919You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
—Mario Cuomo, 1985How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.
—Emma Goldman, 1917Emigration is easy, but immigration is something else. To flee, yes; but to be accepted?
—Victoria Wolff, 1943There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.
—Jean Anouilh, 1934My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972