The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983
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The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
—Thomas Szasz, 1970The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962You can steal a lot more with a computer than with a gun.
—Gina Smith, 1997I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
—Gregory VII, c. 1085The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
—Frantz Fanon, 1952The fact is certain because it is impossible.
—Tertullian, c. 200Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
—Rebecca West, 1912The law’s made to take care o’ raskills.
—George Eliot, 1860Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.
—Immanuel Kant, 1784