We don’t have the option of turning away from the future. No one gets to vote on whether technology is going to change our lives.
—Bill Gates, 1995
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Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.
—Eva Perón, 1949Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Speak without regard for the consequences, and it is too late for silence when disaster strikes.
—Huan Kuan, 81 BCIt is impossible to tell which of the two dispositions we find in men is more harmful in a republic, that which seeks to maintain an established position or that which has none but seeks to acquire it.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1515A true German can’t stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832An electoral choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die.
—George Jackson, 1971Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.
—André Gide, 1897A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
—Bertrand Russell, 1961It is He who has subdued the ocean so that you may eat of its fresh fish and bring up from its depth ornaments to wear. Behold the ships plowing their course through it. All this, that you may seek His bounty and render thanks.
—The Qur’an, c. 625Life is no way to treat an animal.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891