The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
—François Guizot, 1830
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There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1965No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762I even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep, illuminated streets. That’s a form of dying, that losing contact with the city like that.
—Philip K. Dick, 1972Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.
—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BCWe wish away whole years, and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.
—Joseph Addison, 1711Reputation, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
—Douglas Jerrold, 1840Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993Trade is a social act.
—John Stuart Mill, 1859In settling an island, the first building erected by a Spaniard will be a church, by a Frenchman a fort, by a Dutchman a warehouse, and by an Englishman an alehouse.
—Francis Grose, 1787It is hell to belong to a suppressed minority.
—Claude McKay, 1937