If not us, who? If not now, when?
—Czech slogan, 1989
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We all have a contract with the public—in us they see themselves, or what they would like to be.
—Clark Gable, 1935Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
—Jules Renard, 1898How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833All art is a revolt against man’s fate.
—André Malraux, 1951One man’s loss is another man’s profit.
—Michel de Montaigne, c. 1580Death keeps no calendar.
—George Herbert, 1640Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
—Pericles, c. 450 BCIf a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide—because he kills not merely a man but a near relative—without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.
—Saint Augustine, c. 420