In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878
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My people and I have come to an agreement that satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.
—Frederick the Great, c. 1770All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
—Elias Canetti, 1960Recreations should be as sauces to your meat, to sharpen your appetite unto the duties of your calling, and not to glut yourselves with them.
—Thomas Gouge, 1672I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!
—George H. W. Bush, 1990Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCDoes anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?
—Jane Holtz Kay, 1992Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
—John Berger, 1972No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.
—Che Guevara, 1965