There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.
—Eleanor Robson Belmont, 1957
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An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
—Maxim Gorky, 1902A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.
—Jane Austen, 1816Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
—Germaine Greer, 1970Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.
—Erich Fromm, 1947So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950God is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1918It is He who has subdued the ocean so that you may eat of its fresh fish and bring up from its depth ornaments to wear. Behold the ships plowing their course through it. All this, that you may seek His bounty and render thanks.
—The Qur’an, c. 625Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.
—Zadie Smith, 2000I 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, 1804Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
—Sarah Williams, 1868