One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911
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The 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, 1777I had rather be in a state of misery and envied for my supposed happiness than in a state of happiness and pitied for my supposed misery.
—Elizabeth Inchbald, 1793If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
—Tennessee Williams, 1953Refrigerators and television sets, or even rockets sent to the moon, do not change man into God.
—Czesław Miłosz, 1960Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonThe most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
—Paul Johnson, 1989Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
—Molière, 1666Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1755