The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
—Erich Fromm, 1941
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Whatever the pace of this technological revolution may be, the direction is clear: the lower rungs of the economic ladder are being lopped off.
—Bayard Rustin, 1965And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BCA self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
—Christina Stead, 1938I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.
—John Maynard Keynes, 1917I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.
—Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1804Among famous traitors of history, one might mention the weather.
—Ilka Chase, 1969It is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.
—Anaxandrides, c. 376Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.
—Sharyn McCrumb, 1990Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.
—Lord Byron, 1822Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020I curse the night, yet doth from day me hide.
—William Drummond, 1616