Technology is so much fun, but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
—Daniel Boorstin, 1978
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Despotism achieves great things illegally; democracy doesn’t even take the trouble to achieve small things legally.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1831I drink for the thirst to come.
—François Rabelais, 1535If there is a technological advance without a social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
—Michael Harrington, 1962It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.
—Erasmus, 1518How can we bear misfortune most easily? If we see our enemies faring worse.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 585 BCIf there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
—Thomas Paine, 1778One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.
—Thomas Hughes, 1857Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
—Veronica Wedgwood, 1946Oh, democracy! Whither are you leading us?
—Aristophanes, 414 BCA man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
—Amiri Baraka, 1962Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.
—James Howell, 1659