Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BC
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All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCEverything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
—Plato, c. 375 BCThe surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
—Germaine Greer, 1970I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994Cities are the abyss of the human species.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762Friend! It is a common word, often lightly used. Like other good and beautiful things, it may be tarnished by careless handling.
—Harriet Jacobs, 1861Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCWhatever the pace of this technological revolution may be, the direction is clear: the lower rungs of the economic ladder are being lopped off.
—Bayard Rustin, 1965The only justification of rebellion is success.
—Thomas B. Reed, 1878I always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.
—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness.
—Thomas Paine, 1792Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838