Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the grand climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
—Jean Baudrillard, 1987
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Though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.
—Bion of Smyrna, c. 100 BCFriends are ourselves.
—John Donne, 1603Only the little people pay taxes.
—Leona Helmsley, 1989Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993I went [to war] because I couldn’t help it. I didn’t want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.
—Louisa May Alcott, 1863Moderation in all things.
—Terence, 166 BCAre we not ourselves nature, nature without end?
—Stanisław Lem, 1961So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.
—Martial, c. 86Where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
—George Santayana, c. 1905