A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
—Arthur Miller, 1961
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To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1891Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963Man and animals are really the conduit of food, the sepulcher of animals, and resting place of the dead, one causing the death of the other, making themselves the covering for the corruption of other dead bodies.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
—Barbara Ehrenreich, 1991Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 43 BCBut of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
—Genesis, c. 900 BCI have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
—Maya Angelou, 1993Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness.
—Thomas Paine, 1792We seek with our human hands to create a second nature in the natural world.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC