I don’t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
—Woody Allen, 1971
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Nature contains no one constant form.
—Paul-Henri Dietrich d’Holbach, 1770The happy ending is our national belief.
—Mary McCarthy, 1947An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.
—Epicurus, c. 250 BCAnimals are good to think with.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCThe tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1787This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
—Abraham Lincoln, 1861Commerce has made all winds her ministers.
—John Sterling, 1843The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906