Industrialism is the religion with “the machine” as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.
—Dora Russell, 1983
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I prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.
—Sallust, c. 35 BCI curse the night, yet doth from day me hide.
—William Drummond, 1616A world is sooner destroyed than made.
—Thomas Burnet, 1684History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
—Theodor Adorno, c. 1946There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called games.
—W.H. Auden, 1962Hang work! I wish that all the year were holiday; I am sure that Indolence—indefeasible Indolence—is the true state of man.
—Charles Lamb, 1805I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1928There are many civil questions that arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled.
—William Howard Taft, 1921A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
—P.D. James, 1992Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920Envy and hatred are apt to blind the eyes and render them unable to behold things as they are.
—Margaret of Valois, c. 1600