It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000
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It 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, 1891The land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
—The BibleThere is only one honest impulse at the bottom of puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.
—H.L. Mencken, 1920Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972Spit not in the well; you may have to drink its water.
—French proverbReal education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.
—Ezra Pound, 1934Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.
—Abraham the Jew, c. 1400Recreations 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, 1672In the country gossip is a pastime; in the city it is a warfare.
—W.M.L. Jay, 1870Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555