No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.
—Emma Goldman, 1917
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Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982In all the ancient states and empires, those who had the shipping, had the wealth.
—William Petty, 1690In life our absent friend is far away: / But death may bring our friend exceeding near.
—Christina Rossetti, 1881“Work” does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1964I ride rough waters and shall sink with no one to save me.
—Virginia Woolf, 1931The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
—Jean Genet, 1983If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1776Our whole life is but one great school; from the cradle to the grave we are all learners; nor will our education be finished until we die.
—Ann Plato, 1841All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
—Woody Allen, 1979