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—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924
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I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.
—Herman Melville, 1853A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCWritten laws are like spiderwebs: they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.
—Anacharsis, c. 550 BCA mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
—Francis Bacon, 1625I am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.
—Maximilien Robespierre, 1792What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1679Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940