Is it a fact—or have I dreamed it—that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851
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The mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.
—Isaac Asimov, 1988An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
—James Russell Lowell, c. 1865Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.
—Albert Camus, 1956Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
—Erica Jong, 1973Better no law than no law enforced.
—Danish proverbDo not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
—Jules Renard, 1898A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.
—Terence, 161 BCDo not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2350 BCOnce suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951