Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
—Mao Zedong, 1938
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Most men employ the first years of their life in making the last miserable.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
—Italo Calvino, 1967Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
—Amiri Baraka, 1962As man disappears from sight, the land remains.
—Maori proverbThe only justification of rebellion is success.
—Thomas B. Reed, 1878If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1850A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1944In tampering with the earth, we tamper with a mystery.
—Jonathan Schell, 2000Without a decisive naval force, we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.
—George Washington, 1781I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
—Xenocrates, c. 350 BC