Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797
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I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600We cannot say what the woman might be physically, if the girl were not allowed all the freedom of the boy in romping, climbing, swimming, playing whoop and ball.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848I even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep, illuminated streets. That’s a form of dying, that losing contact with the city like that.
—Philip K. Dick, 1972One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852Oh, democracy! Whither are you leading us?
—Aristophanes, 414 BCNothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 110Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
—Robert Wilson, 1991The sea receives us in a proper way only when we are without clothes.
—Pliny the Elder, 77Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546