All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977
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By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1915The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799The self is like an infant: given free rein, it craves to suckle.
—al-Busiri, c. 1250Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.
—Ecclesiasticus, c. 180 BCThere is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
—Sarah Bernhardt, 1904The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905I imagined it was more difficult to die.
—Louis XIV, 1715One of the animals which a generous and sociable man would soonest become is a dog. A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character; he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.
—Leigh Hunt, 1834