The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
—Erich Fromm, 1941
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The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
—Nell Scovell, 1991There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, 1989We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 1969Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
—George Eliot, 1857Such then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.
—Voltaire, 1764Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCTo do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
—Herman Melville, 1851Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890Anyone who in discussion quotes authority uses his memory rather than his intellect.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BC