An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
—James Russell Lowell, c. 1865
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The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and makes use of it if need be; the force of religion is love and benevolence.
—Moses Mendelssohn, 1783It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
—Paul Valéry, 1943It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927What is life but organized energy?
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1958The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
—John Locke, 1695We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 1969If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.
—Raymond Chandler, 1945Kings and fools know no law.
—German proverbDemocracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
—Florence King, 1989