A functioning police state needs no police.
—William S. Burroughs, 1959
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If a king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCNo great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.
—Emma Goldman, 1917Tomorrow we take to the mighty sea.
—Horace, 23 BCThe poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCPerish the universe, provided I have my revenge.
—Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, 1654Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975In every man is a wild beast; most of them don’t know how to hold it back, and the majority give it full rein when they are not restrained by terror of law.
—Frederick the Great, 1759Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955The 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, 1970Drunkenness is the very sepulcher / Of man’s wit and his discretion.
—Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1390Let us make our own mistakes, but let us take comfort in the knowledge that they are our own mistakes.
—Tom Mboya, 1958The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
—George Eliot, 1876