All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.
—Max Born, 1968
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An American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
—Paul Valéry, 1943Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.
—Malcolm X, 1964Man and animals are really the conduit of food, the sepulcher of animals, and resting place of the dead, one causing the death of the other, making themselves the covering for the corruption of other dead bodies.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
—Alexander Pope, 1738And to our age’s drowsy blood / Still shouts the inspiring sea.
—James Russell Lowell, 1848Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
—John Berger, 1972To know the abyss of the darkness and not to fear it, to entrust oneself to it and whatever may arise from it—what greater gift?
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1975Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995