Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
—Sigmund Freud, 1930
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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.
—Matsuo Basho, c. 1685An unjust law is no law at all.
—Saint Augustine, 395A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do.
—W.H. Auden, 1946Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
—Willa Cather, 1918Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
—W.H. Auden, 1957I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881It was lonesome, the leaving.
—Wetatonmi, c. 1877Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
—Arthur Wellesley, c. 1830When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.
—Martin Luther, c. 1540All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.
—Max Born, 1968Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
—William Hazlitt, 1819