I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
—H. Rap Brown, 1967
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He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935Wants keep pace with wealth always.
—Timothy Titcomb, 1859One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.
—Pindar, c. 450 BCPatriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
—Denis Diderot, 1774People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.
—Bayard Rustin, 1986Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men, but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
—Joseph Addison, 1711I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.
—Madonna, c. 1985Is it a fact—or have I dreamed it—that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you.
—François Rabelais, 1535Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder.
—James J. Cramer, 2006