We must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.
—John Winthrop, 1630
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Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
—Pericles, c. 450 BCEveryone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art—that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
—John Morley, 1872Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844It’s only the futility of the first flood that prevents God from sending a second.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1794The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
—Erich Fromm, 1941