Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790
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Secrecy lies at the very core of power.
—Elias Canetti, 1960Communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCOne of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.
—Edward O. Wilson, 2009I used to think that everyone was just being funny. But now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?
—Andy Warhol, 1970When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.
—Desmond Tutu, 1984According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1943Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will.
—Slogan of the National Labor Union of the United States, 1866If we pretend to respect the artist at all, we must allow him his freedom of choice, in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify. Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.
—Henry James, 1884