The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
—Jean Genet, 1983
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The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
—Albert Einstein, 1936Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.
It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
—Maya Angelou, 2011Some memories are like lucky charms, talismans, one shouldn’t tell about them or they’ll lose their power.
—Iris Murdoch, 1985An ugly sight, a man who’s afraid.
—Jean Anouilh, 1944Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
—Chinese proverbThe body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665The mill will never grind with water that is past.
—Daniel McCallum, 1870I have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie knife.
—James Russell Lowell, 1873It is He who has subdued the ocean so that you may eat of its fresh fish and bring up from its depth ornaments to wear. Behold the ships plowing their course through it. All this, that you may seek His bounty and render thanks.
—The Qur’an, c. 625Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1973