The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
—Erich Fromm, 1941
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It costs a lot to make a person look this cheap.
—Dolly Parton, 1994Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1817Power is so apt to be insolent, and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good terms.
—George Savile, c. 1690He who sings frightens away his ills.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The BibleMan’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
—Reinhold Niebuhr, 1944The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
—Germaine Greer, 1970Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.
—Peter Hitchcock, 2010