Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972
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We and the dead ride quick at night.
—Gottfried August Bürger, 1773I proclaim night more truthful than the day.
—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956Freedom of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one.
—A.J. Liebling, 1960They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605All people have the common desire to be elevated in honor, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCBe courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
—George Washington, 1783Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600Machines do not run in order to enable men to live, but we resign ourselves to feeding men in order that they may serve the machines.
—Simone Weil, 1934If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper that did his job well.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1954Death renders all equal.
—Claudian, c. 395Power is so apt to be insolent, and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good terms.
—George Savile, c. 1690Among famous traitors of history, one might mention the weather.
—Ilka Chase, 1969