Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.
—Book of Samuel, c. 550 BC
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A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
—Jane Austen, 1814Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCThe world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.
—George Moore, 1888Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1790Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCGive us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.
—E. R. Dodds, 1951It’s only the futility of the first flood that prevents God from sending a second.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1794Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
—Thomas Browne, 1658For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813