It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781
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I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
—Willa Cather, 1915A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
—Martin Luther King Jr., c. 1967For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.
—German proverbChildhood has no forebodings—but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
—George Eliot, 1860Water is the first principle of everything.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BCAn appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
—James Russell Lowell, c. 1865Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
—Jean Genet, 1949It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding, when it can hold men’s hearts by hopes, when it cannot by satisfaction.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
—H.G. Wells, 1920People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.
—James Baldwin, 1953