Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938
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Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
—Vladimir Nabokov, 1941I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600The earth is our existence, and our body is attached to the earth.
—Daulat Qazi, c. 1650Industrialism is the religion with “the machine” as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.
—Dora Russell, 1983A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
—Arthur Miller, 1961It is permitted to learn even from an enemy.
—Ovid, c. 8Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
—William James, 1902Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.
—James Howell, 1659I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?
—Andy Warhol, 1963The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911