Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903
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There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690Among famous traitors of history, one might mention the weather.
—Ilka Chase, 1969Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.
—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BCI will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
—Ian Dury, 1977How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960I went [to war] because I couldn’t help it. I didn’t want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.
—Louisa May Alcott, 1863Trade’s proud empire hastes to swift decay.
—Oliver Goldsmith, 1770Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825