Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
—Louis Brandeis, 1928
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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986We 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, 1690“Work” does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1964True friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.
—Isabel Allende, 2000Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.
—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
—John Wilkes Booth, 1865Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936He who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverbMen are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
—H. Rap Brown, 1967