If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
—Thomas Paine, 1778
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The nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
—Empedocles, c. 450 BCModern life is often a mechanical oppression, and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1935Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCThere never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
—Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1714The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
—P.G. Wodehouse, 1929Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.
—Derek Walcott, 1986Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
—Paul Valéry, 1943