If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.
—Confucius, c. 500
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1921There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
—Margaret Mitchell, 1936There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1738The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Leviticus, c. 600 BCAs far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.
—Will Self, 1994There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
—Anthony Trollope, 1862The tune I remember, could I but keep the words.
—Virgil, 38 BCHow like to us is that filthy beast the ape.
—Cicero, 45 BC’Tis the sport to have the engineer / Hoist with his own petard.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.
—Moses Mendelssohn, 1783