The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
—François Guizot, 1830
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Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
—Noël Coward, 1930Egypt was the mother of magicians.
—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790Every communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
—Mao Zedong, 1938God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
—John Lennon, 1970I’ve got some shit I’m conservative about and some shit I’m liberal about. Crime—I’m conservative. Prostitution—I’m liberal.
—Chris Rock, 2008I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.
—Epictetus, c. 100Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
—H.L. Mencken, 1919As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
—Galileo Galilei, 1615