Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.
—Jeremy Bentham, c. 1832
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For most of us, nighttime dreaming brings us closer to our identities and our power than any activity in the waking world.
—Walter Mosley, 2000Words pay no debts.
—William Shakespeare, 1601A dog starved at his master’s gate / Predicts the ruin of the state.
—William Blake, 1807Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1891The fear of war is worse than war itself.
—Seneca, c. 50Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1746What hath night to do with sleep?
—John Milton, 1637Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Life is no way to treat an animal.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005