The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
—Paul Johnson, 1989
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In the country gossip is a pastime; in the city it is a warfare.
—W.M.L. Jay, 1870There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.
—Mark Twain, 1897Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Under the wide and starry sky, / Dig the grave and let me lie.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
—Gore Vidal, 1973Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
—John Berger, 1972We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1928One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1977No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.
—Emma Goldman, 1917Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995Every communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
—Mao Zedong, 1938