Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
—Wendell Phillips, 1859
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I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976There never was a good war or a bad peace.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1773Don’t hit a man at all if you can avoid it, but if you have to hit him, knock him out.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1916When the root lives on, the new leaves come back.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCOil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.
—Peter Hitchcock, 2010The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.
—Molière, 1666Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
—Mark Twain, 1893Every house: temple, empire, school.
—Joseph Joubert, 1800One need merely visit the marketplace and the graveyard to determine whether a city is in both physical and metaphysical order.
—Ernst Jünger, 1977The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878In a true democracy, everyone can be upper-class and live in Connecticut.
—Lisa Birnbach, 1980Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742