In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
—Albert Camus, c. 1940People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.
—Bayard Rustin, 1986We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1928Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.
—Peter Hitchcock, 2010The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.
—Juvenal, c. 125Those who are awake have a world that is one and common, but each of those who are asleep turns aside into his own particular world.
—Heraclitus, c. 500 BCAll revolutions devour their own children.
—Ernst Röhm, 1933To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”
—Book of Ecclesiastes, 225 BCYou shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
—Joseph Conrad, 1900Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906