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Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925

We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.

—Ida M. Tarbell, 1904

War is fear cloaked in courage. 

—William Westmoreland, 1966

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

—Gaston Bachelard, 1960

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

—Mao Zedong, 1938

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

—Fernando Pessoa, c. 1935

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.

—Welsh proverb

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

—Vladimir Lenin, 1918

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

—Abraham Lincoln, c. 1858

It is better to live unknown to the law.

—Irish proverb

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.

—David Hume, 1751

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 30 BC