If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
—Charles M. Allen, 1967
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There are some who, if a cat accidentally comes into the room, though they neither see it nor are told of it, will presently be in a sweat and ready to die away.
—Increase Mather, 1684The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.
—Frederick Douglass, 1855It would be impossible to live for a year without disaster unless one practiced character-reading.
—Virginia Woolf, 1924Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
—Noël Coward, 1930The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
—Marianne Moore, 1935Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
—George Eliot, 1857By night an atheist half believes a God.
—Edward Young, c. 1745Life’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795