Great cities must ever be centers of light and darkness, the home of the best and the worst of our race, holding within themselves the highest talent for good and evil.
—Matthew Hale Smith, 1868
Archive
Quotes
We don’t have the option of turning away from the future. No one gets to vote on whether technology is going to change our lives.
—Bill Gates, 1995The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880Among famous traitors of history, one might mention the weather.
—Ilka Chase, 1969Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
—Woody Allen, 1979Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
—James Baldwin, 1961Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891God sells us all things at the price of labor.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 1969Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919