Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.
—Jacob Burckhardt, c. 1875
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Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
—Hazel Rochman, 1995The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930It’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
—Helen MacInnes, 1963When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that.
—Mao Zedong, 1936The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
—Erich Fromm, 1941Strangers are an endangered species.
—Adrienne Rich, 1980Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
—George Washington, 1796The most may err as grossly as the few.
—John Dryden, 1681Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BC