The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770
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He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935A dog starved at his master’s gate / Predicts the ruin of the state.
—William Blake, 1807There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891The mansion of modern freedoms stands on an ever-expanding base of fossil-fuel use.
—Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2008Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1911Memories are hunting horns
whose noise dies away in the wind.
The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942How can we bear misfortune most easily? If we see our enemies faring worse.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 585 BCDoctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936