Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1923
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Those who are awake have a world that is one and common, but each of those who are asleep turns aside into his own particular world.
—Heraclitus, c. 500 BCNobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
—Jane Austen, 1815I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.
—Catherine the Great, c. 1796Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903The young always have the same problem—how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their elders and copying one another.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
—Richard Feynman, 1986There is no profit without another’s loss.
—Roman proverbSometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
—Carl Sandburg, 1936All revolutions devour their own children.
—Ernst Röhm, 1933I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595Better no law than no law enforced.
—Danish proverb