The king times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end.
—Lord Byron, 1821
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Life’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795It is remarkable that only small birds properly sing.
—Charles Darwin, 1871The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them.
—Denis Diderot, 1777What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast chaos and confusion of books; we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
—Robert Burton, 1621For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.
—Voltaire, 1764The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969Life is no way to treat an animal.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005A joke is at most a temporary rebellion against virtue, and its aim is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.
—George Orwell, 1945Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
—Horace, c. 20 BCIf you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BC