A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
—Ouida, 1880
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Whatsoever is, is in God.
—Benedict de Spinoza, 1677I used to think that everyone was just being funny. But now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?
—Andy Warhol, 1970In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.
—R.D. Laing, 1967In the Middle Ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
—Robert Runcie, 1988Human happiness never remains long in the same place.
—Herodotus, c. 430 BCThe first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.
—Umberto Eco, 1980Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
—Herman Melville, 1851You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
—Billie Holiday, 1956An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BCThe life of a sailor is very unhealthy.
—Francis Galton, 1883When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1918