The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
—Bertrand Russell, 1938
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Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture, to us, and a mirror.
—Alain de Lille, c. 1200I have given up considering happiness as relevant.
—Edward Gorey, 1974It is not my design to drink or sleep; my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
—Oliver Cromwell, 1658The only justification of rebellion is success.
—Thomas B. Reed, 1878Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Reality is always the foe of famous names.
—Petrarch, 1337One religion is as true as another.
—Robert Burton, 1621To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe—though we didn’t know it at the time.
—Susan Sontag, 1973Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.
—Leo Tolstoy, 1893It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
—Jean de La Fontaine, 1668