Dread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998
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Machines do not run in order to enable men to live, but we resign ourselves to feeding men in order that they may serve the machines.
—Simone Weil, 1934Play, wherein persons of condition, especially ladies, waste so much of their time, is a plain instance to me that men cannot be perfectly idle; they must be doing something, for how else could they sit so many hours toiling at that which generally gives more vexation than delight to people whilst they are actually engaged in it?
—John Locke, 1693Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
—Charles Lamb, 1833Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.
—Quintus Fabius Maximus, c. 203 BCI do love cricket—it’s so very English.
—Sarah Bernhardt, c. 1908Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.
—Theognis, c. 550 BCLuck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.
—Gustave Flaubert, c. 1880The doctor occupies a seat in the front row of the stalls of the human drama, and is constantly watching and even intervening in the tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies which form the raw material of the literary art.
—W. Russell Brain, 1952I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
—Fidel Castro, 1959
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962