It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.
—Lewis Strauss, 1954
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1898It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCIf you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy ParkerThe unknown is the largest need of the intellect.
—Emily Dickinson, 1876What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1850When law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC