If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988
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To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
—Charles Lamb, 1833We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1922Power is so apt to be insolent, and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good terms.
—George Savile, c. 1690One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy.
—George Eliot, 1844A world is sooner destroyed than made.
—Thomas Burnet, 1684If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy ParkerKill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do—that was one of my favorite things about it—and when I first did it, I felt perverse.
—Diane Arbus, c. 1950The only equals are those who are equally rich.
—Burundian proverbThought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
—Voltaire, 1770Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 110