A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1732
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To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.
—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
—Lorraine Hansberry, 1965Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCDemocracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
—Florence King, 1989I detest war. It spoils armies.
—Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, c. 1820The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1929Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?
—Jane Holtz Kay, 1992He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 43 BCLet us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first.
—Frederick Douglass, 1878