A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
—Dorothy L. Sayers, 1947
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The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905To teach is to learn twice over.
—Joseph Joubert, c. 1805One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895Power is so apt to be insolent, and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good terms.
—George Savile, c. 1690We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.
—Winston Churchill, 1948Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.
—Walter Lippmann, 1913Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with the necessities.
—John Lothrop Motley, 1858He that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600Civilization, a much-abused word, stands for a high matter quite apart from telephones and electric lights.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930It is impossible to tell which of the two dispositions we find in men is more harmful in a republic, that which seeks to maintain an established position or that which has none but seeks to acquire it.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1515To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma.
—Gretel Ehrlich, 1994