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An electoral choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die.

—George Jackson, 1971

If I lose at play, I blaspheme, and if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So that God is always sure to be the loser.

—John Donne, 1623

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

—Henrik Ibsen, 1882

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.

—Charles Lamb, 1833

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

—Anaïs Nin, 1939

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

—Hebrews, c. 60

’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1595

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

—Aleister Crowley, 1904

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

—Gustave Flaubert, 1871

Without music life would be a mistake.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

—Dionysius of Halicarnassus, c. 20 BC

There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!

—Rachel Field, 1939