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The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

—Erich Fromm, 1941

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, 1965

And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BC

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

—Christina Stead, 1938

I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.

—John Maynard Keynes, 1917

I 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, 1804

Among famous traitors of history, one might mention the weather.

—Ilka Chase, 1969

It is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.

—Anaxandrides, c. 376

Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.

—Sharyn McCrumb, 1990

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

—William Morris, 1882

And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.

—Lord Byron, 1822

Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.

—Leslie Jamison, 2020

I curse the night, yet doth from day me hide.

—William Drummond, 1616