An electoral choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die.
—George Jackson, 1971
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.
—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BCSex and drugs and rock and roll.
—Ian Dury, 1977Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.
—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BCHave nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882A real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.
—David Foster Wallace, 2000Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
—Paul Johnson, 1989You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.
—Walter Lippmann, 1913