They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home.
—Virgil, c. 30 BC
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Punishment is a sort of medicine.
—Aristotle, c. 340 BCNo nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.
—Emma Goldman, 1917Conjecturing a Climate
Of unsuspended Suns –
Adds poignancy to Winter
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.
—Lewis Strauss, 1954Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
—Martin Luther King Jr., c. 1967When law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
There’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverb