Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929
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The law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverbAnyone who’s never watched somebody die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity.
—John Osborne, 1956Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
—Roald Dahl, 1990Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
—George W. Bush, 2004Journalists belong in the gutter, because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
—Gerald Priestland, 1988Is it a fact—or have I dreamed it—that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851The envious die not once, but as often as the envied win applause.
—Baltasar Gracián, 1647Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962