Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929
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Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811I am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.
—Maximilien Robespierre, 1792I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.
—Ecclesiasticus, c. 180 BCFor what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993I curse the night, yet doth from day me hide.
—William Drummond, 1616War is the child of pride, and pride the daughter of riches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1697Some men never recover from education.
—Oliver St. John Gogarty, 1954Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
—Karl Kraus, 1912Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.
—W.H. Auden, 1947Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
—Woody Allen, 1979