Water its living strength first shows, / When obstacles its course oppose.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1815
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Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.
—Karl Kraus, 1909The earth is our existence, and our body is attached to the earth.
—Daulat Qazi, c. 1650It is a luxury to be understood.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1831All technologies should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
—David Brower, 1992The mill will never grind with water that is past.
—Daniel McCallum, 1870And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BCThe U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.
—Anthony Burgess, 1972All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.
—The Qur’an, c. 620The mansion of modern freedoms stands on an ever-expanding base of fossil-fuel use.
—Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2008Memory is more indelible than ink.
—Anita Loos, 1974We and the dead ride quick at night.
—Gottfried August Bürger, 1773