Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence; in other words it is war minus the shooting.
—George Orwell, 1945
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See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
—Robert Burton, c. 1620This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
—Abraham Lincoln, 1861Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.
—Albert Camus, 1956What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1830Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1817The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy ParkerIn my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCMy ideas are clear. My orders are precise. Within five years, Rome must appear marvelous to all the people of the world—vast, orderly, powerful, as in the time of the empire of Augustus.
—Benito Mussolini, 1929Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902