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A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1732

To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.

—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871

I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.

—Lorraine Hansberry, 1965

Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924

Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

—Florence King, 1989

I detest war. It spoils armies.

—Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, c. 1820

The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.

—Ernest Hemingway, 1929

Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?

—Jane Holtz Kay, 1992

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

—Muhammad, c. 630

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

—Frank Zappa, c. 1975

The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 43 BC

Let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first.

—Frederick Douglass, 1878