I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.
—John Maynard Keynes, 1917
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Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCWater, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
—B.F. Skinner, 1964Mammon, n. The god of the world’s leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911Resorting to the law to resolve a dispute is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
—Quentin Crisp, 1984Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1480Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905As man disappears from sight, the land remains.
—Maori proverbIf I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
—Samuel Johnson, 1777As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbIn time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798