Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903
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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.
—Eleanor Robson Belmont, 1957The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
—Marianne Moore, 1935The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
—George Sand, 1851A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
—Jane Austen, 1814The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
—Hermann Hesse, 1950No one wins a quarrel by quarreling.
—German proverbStrength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
—Barbara Ehrenreich, 1991Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It’s the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883I have been a stranger here in my own land all my life.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BC