It is hard when nature does not respect your intentions, and she never does exactly respect them.
—Wendell Berry, 1985
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Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies.
—H.L. Mencken, 1925Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
—Anna Sewell, 1877The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They indeed are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
—P.D. James, 1992Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.
—Peter Hitchcock, 2010It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
—Edmund Burke, 1765I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?
—Andy Warhol, 1963It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.
—Lewis Strauss, 1954Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
—Vegetius, c. 385I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816