A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
—P.D. James, 1992
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What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170In every ill turn of fortune, the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.
—Boethius, c. 520Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Death renders all equal.
—Claudian, c. 395In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
—Michel Foucault, 1975Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.
—Voltaire, 1759A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
—François Guizot, 1830Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence; in other words it is war minus the shooting.
—George Orwell, 1945Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
—Saint Augustine, 397That which is evil is soon learned.
—John Ray, 1670