All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849
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Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?
—Alfred Hitchcock, 1962The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941Let us make our own mistakes, but let us take comfort in the knowledge that they are our own mistakes.
—Tom Mboya, 1958At the start there’s always energy.
—Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
—Anthony Trollope, 1862When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1657Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
—Norman Douglas, 1917