Kings and fools know no law.
—German proverb
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It is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.
—Anaxandrides, c. 376The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
—William Blake, 1793The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871The various modes of religion which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosophers equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.
—Edward Gibbon, 1776Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the grand climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
—Jean Baudrillard, 1987Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
—Charles Lamb, 1833I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!
—George H. W. Bush, 1990Every gift has a personality—that of its giver.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1992Divine nature gave the fields; human art built the cities.
—Marcus Terentius Varro, c. 70 BCTo live outside the law you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913