No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762
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My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
—George Eliot, 1857Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.
—Philip Stubbes, 1583I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
—Lord Byron, 1813Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982They say, “We only have the life of this world. We die and we live, and nothing destroys us but time.” Yet, not true knowledge have they of this—only belief.
—The Qur’an, c. 620Politics is the art of the possible.
—Otto von Bismarck, 1867Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
—Aldo Leopold, 1933Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811Avoid the talk of men. For talk is mischievous, light, and easily raised, but hard to bear and difficult to be rid of. Talk never wholly dies away when many people voice her: even talk is in some ways divine.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCRevolution begins in putting on bright colors.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975