Business? Why, it’s very simple; business is other people’s money.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1857
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I’ve got some shit I’m conservative about and some shit I’m liberal about. Crime—I’m conservative. Prostitution—I’m liberal.
—Chris Rock, 2008All 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 BCThere is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911The law is established from above but becomes custom below.
—Su Zhe, c. 1100So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.
—Voltaire, 1759People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790War is the child of pride, and pride the daughter of riches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1697I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCTo know the abyss of the darkness and not to fear it, to entrust oneself to it and whatever may arise from it—what greater gift?
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1975A dog starved at his master’s gate / Predicts the ruin of the state.
—William Blake, 1807