So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950
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I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm’s way.
—John Paul Jones, 1778We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
—John Locke, 1690Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness.
—Thomas Paine, 1792It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.
—Mary Boykin Chesnut, 1865Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies.
—H.L. Mencken, 1925I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8Luck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947All people have the common desire to be elevated in honor, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCWhat a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Two crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake.
—Ovid, 10To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890