A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
—Ralph Nader, 2000
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The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.
—Abraham the Jew, c. 1400Is this dying? Is this all? Is this all that I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear it!
—Cotton Mather, 1728In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, 52 BCEvery individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
—William James, 1902When law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
What is life but organized energy?
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1958Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939Words pay no debts.
—William Shakespeare, 1601Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
—D.H. Lawrence, 1920Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764The sea hath no king but God alone.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1881There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909