What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807
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Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.
—Leo Tolstoy, 1893I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
—H. Rap Brown, 1967Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCIf you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.
—John Ruskin, 1865More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.
—Lord Byron, 1819The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1790Memory is the only
afterlife I can understand.
Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Sick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders.
—Gustave Flaubert, 1845