To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1885
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The day unravels what the night has woven.
—Walter Benjamin, 1929The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
—Carina Chocano, 2012Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BCMy people and I have come to an agreement that satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.
—Frederick the Great, c. 1770I have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie knife.
—James Russell Lowell, 1873Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
—G.C. Lichtenberg, c. 1780If there is a technological advance without a social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
—Michael Harrington, 1962The first thing that a new migrant sends to his family back home isn’t money; it’s a story.
—Suketu Mehta, 2019Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that.
—Mao Zedong, 1936In all the ancient states and empires, those who had the shipping, had the wealth.
—William Petty, 1690