In a true democracy, everyone can be upper-class and live in Connecticut.
—Lisa Birnbach, 1980
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Religion! How it dominates man’s mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion. But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.
—Emma Goldman, 1910The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957The sea hath fish for every man.
—William Camden, 1605Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
—Finley Peter Dunne, 1900If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
—Upton Sinclair, 1935Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962The drunken man is a living corpse.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1944It is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
—James Hutton, 1795Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
—Julie Burchill, 1986