The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
—Erich Fromm, 1941
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The Mediterranean has the colors of a mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet—you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing light has taken on a tinge of pink or gray.
—Vincent van Gogh, 1888The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
—François Guizot, 1830Years are nothing to me—they should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild nature, time is measured by seasons only—the bird does not know how old it is—the rose tree does not count its birthdays!
—Marie Corelli, 1911There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.
—Eleanor Robson Belmont, 1957True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. War is hell.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010I shall embrace my rival—until I suffocate him.
—Jean Racine, 1669There never was a good war or a bad peace.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1773Time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace. Usually it loiters, but just when one has come to count upon its slowness, it may suddenly break into a wild irrational gallop.
—Edith Wharton, 1905Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCMy advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
—Timothy Leary, 1966