Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1755
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If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
—Billie Holiday, 1956Our whole life is but one great school; from the cradle to the grave we are all learners; nor will our education be finished until we die.
—Ann Plato, 1841Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1819Everyone lives by selling something.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
—George Santayana, 1905Kill 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, 1939Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?
—Stanisław Lem, 1961There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1965