It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverb
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The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001If not us, who? If not now, when?
—Czech slogan, 1989A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do.
—W.H. Auden, 1946Drink today and drown all sorrow; / You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.
—John Fletcher, 1625Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCIt was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013Enemies are so stimulating.
—Katharine Hepburn, 1969Journalists belong in the gutter, because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
—Gerald Priestland, 1988For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
—Charles Baudelaire, c. 1865It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936Let my epitaph be, “Here lies Joseph, who failed in everything he undertook.”
—Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, 1790