All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
—Frederick Douglass, 1852The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860This is Year Zero.
—Pol Pot, 1975Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
—Herman Melville, 1849God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
—Maxim Gorky, 1913Laughter always arises from a gaiety of disposition, absolutely incompatible with contempt and indignation.
—Voltaire, 1736None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1943Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866When you drink water, think of its source.
—Chinese proverb