Unfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1932
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Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
—Yves Saint Laurent, 1978Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
—Mark Twain, 1893True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972Why has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787The sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
—Anne Sexton, 1971Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.
—Dionysius of Halicarnassus, c. 20 BCWe cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
—Evelyn Waugh, 1963Man’s great mission is not to conquer nature by main force but to cooperate with her intelligently but lovingly for his own purposes.
—Lewis Mumford, 1962How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.
—Cicero, 45 BCThe peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961