Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943
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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
—George Eliot, 1857The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.
—Molière, 1666If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy ParkerAs far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.
—Will Self, 1994Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
—Lord Acton, 1887A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.
—Ecclesiasticus, c. 180 BCIf the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
—Charles M. Allen, 1967The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851When arms speak, the laws are silent.
—Cicero, 52 BCWe have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
—Barbara Ward, 1972I’ve got some shit I’m conservative about and some shit I’m liberal about. Crime—I’m conservative. Prostitution—I’m liberal.
—Chris Rock, 2008