A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.
—George Mikes, 1946
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The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.
—Edward O. Wilson, 2009There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
—Booth Tarkington, 1914There are many civil questions that arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled.
—William Howard Taft, 1921I have often been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
—Thucydides, c. 404 BCOpposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
—George Eliot, 1857The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1928How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798The highest result of education is tolerance.
—Helen Keller, 1903When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
—Alice Hegan Rice, 1917Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955