Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
—Wendell Phillips, 1859
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Traveling is like gambling: it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1797God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
—Maxim Gorky, 1913Hunting is all that’s worth living for—all time is lost what is not spent in hunting—it is like the air we breathe—if we have it not we die—it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt.
—Robert Smith Surtees, 1843Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.
—Barbara Kingsolver, 1990One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1664Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.
—German proverbFeasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
—Aldous Huxley, 1929To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.
—Emily Dickinson, 1876Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890