To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1885
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No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991Journalists belong in the gutter, because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
—Gerald Priestland, 1988It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.
—Euripides, 412 BCWhere shall I, of wandering weary, find my resting place at last?
—Heinrich Heine, 1827Epitaph, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.
—T. H. Huxley, 1895To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678The law is established from above but becomes custom below.
—Su Zhe, c. 1100Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
—Camille Paglia, 1992Modern life is often a mechanical oppression, and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1935On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580