Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890
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The United States has virtually set up an empire on impounded and redistributed water.
—Charles P. Berkey, 1946In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1830Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
—Albert Camus, c. 1940Cities are the abyss of the human species.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCWhat is death? A scary mask. Take it off—see, it doesn’t bite.
—Epictetus, c. 110Good men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844I am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.
—Maximilien Robespierre, 1792We 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, 1969There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1965Nobody, sir, dies willingly.
—Antiphanes, c. 370 BCThe freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right when they act in community. Religious communities are a requirement of the social nature both of man and of religion itself.
—Pope Paul VI, 1965