I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1928All art is a revolt against man’s fate.
—André Malraux, 1951There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
—Elias Canetti, 1960Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.
—Fernand Braudel, 1979The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Leviticus, c. 600 BCI'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
—Gore Vidal, 1973Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972There’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
—Anna Sewell, 1877Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.
—Confucius, c. 515 BCI’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924