Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.
—Jean Baudrillard, c. 1987
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Democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
—Margaret Halsey, 1946Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
—James Joyce, 1922We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
—Barbara Ward, 1972He may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.
—Emperor Francis Joseph, c. 1850The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.
—Hunter S. Thompson, 1971The law is not the same at morning and at night.
—George Herbert, c. 1633An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
—Henry Clay, 1842Anyone who doesn’t know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1821Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.
—Mark Twain, 1873Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811Idolatry is the mother of all games.
—Novatian, c. 255What man was ever content with one crime?
—Juvenal, c. 125