Do you not see how God is praised by those in the heavens and those on earth? The very birds praised Him as they wing their way.
—The Qur’an, c. 620
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We do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813Memory is the only
afterlife I can understand.
One man’s loss is another man’s profit.
—Michel de Montaigne, c. 1580Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1754An electoral choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die.
—George Jackson, 1971The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
—Frantz Fanon, 1952Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money’s guest.
—Norman O. Brown, 1959A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
—Arthur Miller, 1961No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
—George Sand, 1851The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCImagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of the others; those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows and, looking at each other with grief and despair, await their turn. This is an image of the human condition.
—Blaise Pascal, 1669