Quotes

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

—Ernest Hemingway, 1954

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

—Margaret Mead, 1972

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

—Theodor Adorno, c. 1946

Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.

—The Book of Changes, c. 350 BC

Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas.

—John Florio, 1578

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

—Hesiod, c. 700 BC

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

—Steve Biko, 1971

To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.

—Martin Luther

The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.

—William Blake, 1793

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BC

I don’t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

—Woody Allen, 1971

Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.

—Jacob Burckhardt, c. 1875

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