Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751
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I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
—Fidel Castro, 1959
I am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.
—Maximilien Robespierre, 1792Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
—Albert Einstein, 1936The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
—Virginia Woolf, 1921Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1908The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.
—Francis Bacon, 1605It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCLiberty and democracy are eternal enemies.
—H.L. Mencken, 1925Communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.
—Horace, 20 BC