The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961
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Envy is the basis of democracy.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.
—Immanuel Kant, 1784Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932The only equals are those who are equally rich.
—Burundian proverbAn American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840The young man must store up, the old man must use.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 63What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast chaos and confusion of books; we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
—Robert Burton, 1621Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
—Jane Austen, 1811Television is democracy at its ugliest.
—Paddy Chayefsky, 1976Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
—Roger Ebert, 1998To live outside the law you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601