Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
—Gertrude Stein, 1914
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A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The BibleDemocracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891What touches all shall be approved by all.
—Edward I, 1295Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
—John Locke, 1690Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1821Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.
—Confucius, c. 515 BCI hate the sight of monkeys; they remind me so of poor relations.
—Henry Luttrell, 1820The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.
—William James, 1902I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
—George Borrow, 1843The true mission of American sports is to prepare young men for war.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower, c. 1952