Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1923
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The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and oneself anew.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1920In life our absent friend is far away: / But death may bring our friend exceeding near.
—Christina Rossetti, 1881Trade is a social act.
—John Stuart Mill, 1859Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
—E.B. White, 1944Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857I have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie knife.
—James Russell Lowell, 1873Our entire history is merely the history of the waking life of man; nobody has yet considered the history of his sleeping life.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, c. 1780Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
—Francis Bacon, 1625He who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverbThe only function of a school is to make self-education easier.
—Isaac Asimov, 1974