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  "I am a good boy.
  I am a good man.
  I am a good girl."

  "What is this, propaganda?"
                -- Mae West (My Little Chickadee)
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  For nothing lovelier can be found
  in woman, than to study household good,
  And good works in her Husband to promote.
                -- Milton
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The good Wife is none of our dainty dames, who love to appear in
a variety of suits every day new; as if a good gown, like a stratagem
in War, were to be used but once.  But our good Wife sets up a sail according
to the keel of her husband's estate; and if of high Parentage, she
doth not so remember what she was by birth, that she forgets
what she is by match.        -- Fuller
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  Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's Wife,
  he would have written Sonnets all his life?
                -- Byron
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  ... What thou bid'st
  Unargued I obey; so God ordains:
  God is thy law; thou mine: to know no more
  Is Woman's happiest knowledge, and her Praise.
                -- Milton
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Let your Wit rather serve you for a buckler to defend yourself,
by a handsome reply, than the Sword to wound others, though with never
so facetious a Reproach, remembering that a Word cuts deeper than a
sharper weapon, and the Wound it makes is longer curing.
                -- Osborn
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Pleasure is to Women what the Sun is to the Flower; if moderately enjoyed,
it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers,
etiolates, and destroys.    -- Colton
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There can be no regulation in the Minds nor in the Hearts of Women,
unless their temperament is in unison with it.
                -- La Rochefoucauld
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Nothing makes a Woman more esteemed by the opposite sex than Chastity;
whether it be that we always prize those most who are hardest to come
at, or, that nothing besides Chastity, with its collateral attendants,
Truth, Fidelity, and Constancy, gives the man a property in the person
he loves, and consequently endears her to him above all things.
                -- Addison
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  A Woman, impudent and mannish grown
  Is not more loath'd than an effeminate Man.
                -- Shakespeare
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Musick is almost as dangerous as Gunpowder; and it may be requires
looking after no less than the Press or the Mint. 'Tis possible
a publick Regulation might not be amiss.
                -- Jeremy Collier (1650-1726)
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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes
of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.
                -- Plato (428-347 B.C.): "The Republic"
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As I went under the new telegraph-wire, I heard it vibrating like a
harp high overhead.  It was as the sound of a far-off glorious life,
a supernal life, which came down to us, and vibrated the lattice-work
of this life of ours.        -- H. D. Thoreau (1817-1862)
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I am saddest when I sing; so are those that hear me; they are sadder
even than I am.            -- Artemus Ward (1834-1867)
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She was a town-and-country soprano of the kind often used for augmenting
grief at a funeral.        -- George Ade (1866-1944)
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Miss Truman is a unique American phenomenon with a pleasant voice of
little size and fair quality ... Yet Miss Truman cannot sing very well.
She is flat a good deal of the time ..., she communicates almost nothing of
the music she presents.... There are few moments during her recital when one
can relax and feel confident that she will make her goal, which is the
end of the song.
            -- Paul Hume, music critic of the Washington Post.

"I have just read your lousy review buried in the back pages.  You sound
like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an eight-ulcer man
on a four-ulcer job, and all four ulcers working.  I have never met you, but
if I do you'll need a new nose and plenty of beefsteak and perhaps
a supporter below.  Westbrook Pegler, a guttersnipe, is a gentleman
compared to you.  You can take that as more of an insult than as a reflection
on your ancestry."        -- President Harry S Truman
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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding
he sings.            -- Ed Gardner (1905-1963)
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  Please do not shoot the pianist.
  He is doing his best.        -- quoted by Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
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I played over the music of that scoundrel Brahms.  What a giftless
bastard!            -- Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
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The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a
composer is that he be dead.    -- Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)
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A wave of vulgar, filthy and suggestive music has unundated the land.
Nothing but ragtime prevails, and the cake-walk with its obscene
posturings, its lewd gestures... Our children, our young men and women,
are continually exposed to its contiguity, to the monotonous attrition
of this vulgarizing music.  It is artistically and morally depressing
and should be suppressed by press and pulpit.
                -- Musical Courier, 1899
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A degenerated and demoralizing musical system is given a disgusting
christening as 'swing' and turned loose to gnaw away the moral fiber
of young people... Jam sessions, jitterbugs and cannibalistic rhythmic
orgies are wooing our youth along the primrose path to Hell!
                -- the Archbishop of Dublique, 1938
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Education, noun.  That which discloses to the wise and disguises from
the foolish their lack of understanding.
                -- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)
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  A Master of Art
  Is not worth a fart.
                -- Andrew Boorde (1490?-1549)
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You can't expect a boy to be depraved until he has been to a good school.
                -- Saki (1870-1916)
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Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.
                -- Irsin Edman (1896-1954)
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He who can, does.  He who cannot, teaches.
                -- G. B. Shaw (1856-1950)
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History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.
                -- Philip Guedalla (1889-1944)
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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know
what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
                -- Bertrand Russel (1872-1969)
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That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the
fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.
                -- Arthur Schopenhaur (1788-1860)
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Alas! can we ring the bells backward?  Can we unlearn the arts that
pretend to civilize, and then burn the world?  There is a march of
science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?
                -- Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
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  For Cambridge people rarely smile
  Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.
                -- Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
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"Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school.
                -- George Ade (1866-1944)
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of
some painful illness.        -- George Orwell (1903-1950)
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people
who write know anything.    -- Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)
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Although written many years ago, Lady Chatterley's Lover has just been
reissued by the Grove Press, and this pictorial account of the
day-to-day life of an English gamekeeper is full of considerable
interest to outdoor minded readers, as it contains many passages on
pheasant-raising, the apprehending of poachers, ways to control vermin,
and other chores and duties of the professional gamekeeper.
Unfortunately, one is obliged to wade through many pages of extraneous
material in order to discover and savour those sidelights on the
management of a midland shooting estate, and in this reviewer's opinion
the book cannot take the place of J. R. Miller's "Practical
Gamekeeping."
                -- Ed Zern, "Field and Stream" (Nov. 1959)
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Publishing a volume of poetry is like dropping a rose-petal down
the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
                -- Don Marquis (1878-1937)
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Actresses will happen in the best regulated families.
                -- Oliver Herford (1863-1935)
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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.
                -- Gilbert Seldes (b. 1893)
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The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the
music stops.            -- Sir Robert Helpmann (b. 1909)
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Painting, Noun.  The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather
and exposing them to the critic.
                -- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)
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There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labour.
                -- Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
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Art isn't something you marry, it's something you rape.
                -- Edgar Degas (1834-1900)
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What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
                -- Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907)
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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
                -- Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
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The vitality of a new movement in art or letters can be pretty accurately
gauged by the fury it arouses.    -- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946)
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  There's a wonderful family called Stein,
  There's Gert and there's Epp and there's Ein;
    Gert's poems are bunk,
    Epp's statues are junk,
  And no one can understand Ein.
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Lettuce doth extinguish venerious acts.
    -- Andrew Boorde (1490?-1549)

It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
    -- Beatrix Potter (1868-1943) "The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies."
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
                -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
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Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with
wind and self-righteousness.    -- Sir Robert Hutchinson (1871-1960)
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No poems can please nor live long which are written by water-drinkers.
                -- Horace (65-8 B.C.)
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Do you think that the grave is too deep?  Well, then, take a drink.
Take one or two or three:  You'll die happier.
                -- Carl Michael Bellman
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Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth
in the glass.  It goeth in pleasantly: But in the end, it will
bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.
            -- Proverbs xxxii 31-32 (The Douai Version, 1914)

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the
cup, when it moveth itself aright.  At the last it biteth like a
serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
            -- Proverbs xxxii 31-32 (The Authorized Version, 1604)
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Every decision you make is a mistake.
                -- Dahlberg
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If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to
change its republican form let them stand undisturbed as monuments
to the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is
left free to combat it.        -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
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You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation
as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very
phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
                -- Charles A. Beard
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"Chi ha del ferro had del pane"

(Who has steel has bread).
                -- Blanqui, quoted by Mussolini
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The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really
free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
                -- Lord Acton (1834-1902)
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Increase of freedom in the State may sometimes promote mediocrity, and
give vitality to prejudice; it may even retard useful legislation, diminish
the capacity for war, and restrict the boundaries of Empire... A generous
spirit prefers that his country should be poor and weak, and of no account,
but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
                -- Lord Acton (1834-1902)
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I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other
men, with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong.  If there is
any presumption it is the other way, against the holders of power,
increasing as the power increases.
                -- Lord Acton (1834-1902)
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Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
                -- Lord Acton (1834-1902)
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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
That is the point at which the negation of Catholicism and the negation
of Liberalism meet and keep high festival, and the end learns to justify
the means.            -- Lord Acton (1834-1902)
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Murder may be done by legal means, by plausible and profitable war,
by calumny, as well as by dose or dagger.
                -- Lord Acton (1834-1902)
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern.
Every class is unfit to govern.
                -- Lord Acton (1834-1902)
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A State which is incompetent to satisfy different races condemns itself;
a State which does not include them is destitute of the chief basis of
self-government.  The theory of nationality, therefore, is a retrograde
step in history.        -- Lord Acton (1834-1902)
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History is not a web woven with innocent hands.  Among all the causes
which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and the
most active.            -- Lord Acton (1834-1902)
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I long to hear that you have declared an independency.  And in the
new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make,
I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable
to them than your ancestors ... If particular care and attention is
not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion and
will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or
representation.            -- Abigail (Smith) Adams (1744-1818)
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  Then here's to the City of Boston
    the town of the cries and the groans.
  Where the Cabots can't see the
    Kabotschniks,
  And the Lowells won't speak to the
    Cohns.
            -- Franklin Pierce Adams (F.P.A.) (1881-1960)
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There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country.  The trouble
is they cost a quarter.  What the country really needs is a good
five-cent nickel.
            -- Franklin Pierce Adams (F.P.A.) (1881-1960)
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power,
and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world. (1862)
                -- Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)
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There is but one element of government, and that is THE PEOPLE.  From
this element spring all governments.  "For a nation to be free, it
is only necessary that she wills it."  For a nation to be slave,
it is only necessary that she wills it.
                -- John Adams (1735-1826)
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and
chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
                -- John Adams (1735-1826)
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In every society where property exists there will ever be a struggle
between rich and poor.  Mixed in one assembly, equal laws can never
be expected; they will either be made by the members to plunder the few
who are rich, or by the influence to fleece the many who are poor.
                -- John Adams (1735-1826)
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As the government of the United States of America is not in any
sense founded on the Christian Religion, -- as it has itself
no character of enmity against the law, religion or tranquility
of Musselmen, ... (Article 11, Treaty of Peace and Friendship between
The United States and ... Tripoli of Barbary.)
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It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
                -- Alfred Adler (1870-1937)
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Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant or an
enemy, must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.
                -- Aesop (620-560 B.C.)
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The paper burns, but the words fly free. (Last words, at the stake,
when the Torah was also burned.)
                -- ben Joseph Akiba (c. 50-132)
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Had I been present at the creation of the world, I would have proposed
some improvements.
                -- Alfonso X (Alfonso the Wise) (1226-1284)
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The laboring people found the prisons always open to receive them,
but the courts of justice were practically closed to them.
                -- John Peter Altgeld (1847-1902)
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth
which it contains.
                -- Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)
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Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only entangle
and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break
through them.            -- Anacharsis (c. 600 B.C.)
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The modern conquerer cannot "take" any spoils.
                -- Sir Norman Angell (1872-?)
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The capitalist can only make a whole people go to war -- want war, clamor
for war as, again and again, we have seen whole peoples doing -- by
capturing the popular will.  The only prophylactic against that situation
is to make the public aware of the way in which it is being misled.
                -- Sir Norman Angell (1872-?)
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Civil liberties are always safe as long as their exercise doesn't
bother anyone.            -- N.Y. Times editorial, Jan. 3, 1941
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[Motion] pictures shall not infer that low forms of sex relations are
the accepted or common thing.    -- Motion picture code (1930)
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[Alcoholic beverages] sloweth age, it strengtheneth youth, it helpeth
digestion, it abandoneth melancholie, it reliseth the heart, it
lighteneth the mind, it quickeneth the spirits, it keepeth and preserveth
the head from whirling, the eyes from dazzling, the tongue from lisping,
the mouth from snaffling, the teeth from chattering, and the throat from
rattling; it keepeth the stomach from wambling, the heart from swelling,
the hands from shivering, the sinews from shrinking, the veins from crumbling,
the bones from aching, and the marrow from soaking.
                -- Anon. (13th Century)
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 The low doth punish man or woman
 That steals the goose from off the common,
 But lets the greater felon loose,
 That steals the common from the goose.
                -- Anon. (1764)
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[A liberal is] one who has both feet firmly planted in the air.
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Who holds the souls of children, holds the nation.
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All mankind is divided into three classes:  those that are immovable,
those that are moveable, and those that move.
                -- Arabic proverb
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"Wes Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing."

(Whose bread I eat, his song I sing.)
                -- Middle High German proverb.
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Tell the truth and run.
                -- Yugoslav proverb
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Money is like muck, not good unless it be spread.
                -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
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Freedom is the absolute right of all adult men and women to seek permission
for their action only from their own conscience and reason, and to be
determined in their actions only by their own will, and consequently
to be responsible only to themselves, and then to the society to which
they belong, but only insofar as they have made a free decision to
belong to it.            -- Mikhail A. Bakunin (1814-1876)
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The bread that you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies
in your chest belongs to the naked; and the gold that you have hidden
in the ground belongs to the poor.
                -- St. Basil (330?-379?)
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A government needs one hundred soldiers for every guerilla it faces.
                -- Fulgencio Batista (1901-?)
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Neither the Declaration of Independence nor the Articles of Confederation
nor any of the first state constitutions had mentioned the word "republic."
At the time, it was like a red flag to conservatives everywhere.
        -- Charles Austin (1874-1948) and Mary R. Beard (1876-1958)
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Be commonplace and creeping, and you will be a success.
                -- Pierre de Beaumarchais (1732-1799)
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It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.
                -- Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria (1738?-1794)
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Beethoven can write music, thank God -- but he can do nothing else
on earth.            -- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
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When Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's hero, Frankenstein, endowed his
synthetic robot with a human heart, the monster which before had been
a useful mechanical servant suddenly became an uncontrollable force.
Our ancestors feared that corporations had no conscience.  We are treated
to the colder, more modern fear that, perhaps they do.
                -- A. A. Berle, Jr. (1895-?)
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Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business.  Cheat.
                -- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
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Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
                -- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
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A saint is a dead sinner, revised and edited.
                -- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
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I think that I think; therefore, I think I am. (Cogito cogito, ergo
cogito ergo sum.)
                -- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
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"Die Politik is keine exakte Wissenschaft."

(Politics are not an exact science.)
                -- Otto von Bismark (1815-1898)
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Politics is the doctrine of the possible, the attainable.
                -- Otto von Bismark (1815-1898)
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The interest of the people [lies] in being able to join organizations,
advocate causes, and make political "mistakes" without being subjected
to government penalties.    -- Justice Hugo Black (1886-?)
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One Law for the Lion and Ox is oppression.
                -- William Blake (1757-1827)
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Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion.
                -- William Blake (1757-1827)
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As the catterpiller chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on,
so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
                -- William Blake (1757-1827)
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 A truth that's told with bad intent
 Beats all the Lies you can invent.
                -- William Blake (1757-1827)
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To generalize is to be an idiot.
                -- William Blake (1757-1827)
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You who are schizophrenic:  do you sleep together?
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There are trivial truths and the great truth.  The opposite of a trivial
truth is plainly false.  The opposite of a great truth is also true.
                -- Niels Bohr (1885-?)
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P.D.Q. Bach's life proves, if proof be needed, the importance of a
sound musical education.    -- Prof. Peter Schickele (?)
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History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the
origin of wheat.        -- Jean Henri Fabre (1823-1915)
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Accurate reckoning -- the entrance into the knowledge of all existing
things and all obscure secrets.
                -- Ahmes the Scribe (17th cent. B.C.)
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Since the star [Sirius] advances one day every four years, and in order
that the holidays celebrated in the summer shall not fall into winter,
as has been and will be the case if the year continues to have 360
and 5 additional days, it is hereby decreed that henceforth every four
years there shall be celebrated the holidays of the Gods of Euergetes
after the 5 additional days and before the new year, so that everyone
might know that the former shortcomings in reckoning the seasons of the year
have henceforth been truly corrected by King Euergetes.
                -- Ptolemy III Euergetes (238 B.C.)
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"Ubi non accusator, ibi non judex."
(Where there is no police, there is no speed limit.)
                -- Roman Law, trans. Petr Beckmann (1971)
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"Ceterum censeo clitorem Vostris Sanctissimae Majestatis ante
coitum excitandam esse."
    -- Advice given to Empress Maria Theresa by her personal physician.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable.
                -- G. B. Shaw (1856-1950)
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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
                -- Omar N. Bradley (1893-?)
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Crime is contagious.  If the government becomes a law-breaker,
it breeds contempt for law.
                -- Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
                -- W. C. Brann (1855-1898)
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"Delete any [movie] footage which includes the idea that war is
not altogether glamorous and noble."
                -- Joseph I. Breen (1890-?), film executive
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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.
                -- Heywood Broun (1888-1939)
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It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the
masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority.
Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority
of the people.
                -- Giordano Bruno (1548?-1600)
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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless
state, it were cause indeed to weep.
                -- William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
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The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
                -- Luther Burbank (1849-1926)
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A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
                -- Richard Burton (1577-1640)
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When the end is lawful, the means are also lawful.
                -- Hermann Busenbaum (1600-1668)
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The wicked have a solid interest that the good never seem to possess.
the good are grand for one great rally.  Then they go hom eand work at
their business.  The cohesive power of public plunder remains on the job.
                -- Nicolas Murray Butler (1862-1947)
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An honest God's the noblest work of man.
                -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
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I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
                -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
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Cursed is he that does not know when to shut his mind.  An open mind
is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there
is no keeping anything in or out of it.  It should be capable of shutting
its doors sometimes, or may be found a little draughty.
                -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
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All of the animals excepting man know that the principal business of life
is to enjoy it.
                -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
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The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on
the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow.  So it is,
but the milk is more likely to be watered.
                -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
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All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of
every organism to live beyond its income.
                -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
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Men willingly believe what they wish.
                -- Gaius Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.)
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire;
and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
                -- Calgacus (c. 84 A.D.)
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An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
                -- Simon Cameron (1799-1889)
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It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to
have a meaning to be lived.  It now becomes clear, on the contrary,
that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning.
                -- Albert Camus (1913-1960)
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Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.
                -- Albert Camus (1913-1960)
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Don't get the idea that I'm one of these goddam radicals.  Don't get
the idea that I'm knocking the American system.
                -- Al Capone (1899-1947)
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My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay
that way.            -- Al Capone (1899-1947)
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The American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it Capitalism,
call it what you like, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity
if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.
                -- Al Capone (1899-1947)
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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
                -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
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That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge,
this I call tragedy... The miserable fraction of Science which our United
Mankind, in a wide universe of Nescience, has acquired, why is not this,
with all diligence, imparted to all?
                -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebels
against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
                -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
                -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing -- a sentence printed, if not
by God, then at least by the Devil.
                -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
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The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that
the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in
harmonious relationship.
                -- Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)
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The socialist or anarchist who seeks to overturn present conditions
is to be regarded as attacking the foundation upon which civilization
itself rests... One who studies this subject will soon be brought face
to face with the conclusion that upon the sacredness of property civilization
itself depends -- the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in
the saving bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to
his millions.            -- Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)
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The commercial prostitution of love is the last outcome of our whole social
system, and its most clear condemnation.  It flaunts in our streets, it
hides itself in the garment of respectability under the name of matrimony,
... it is fed by the oppression and the ignorance of women, by their poverty
and denied means of livelihood, and by the hypocritical puritianism which
forbids them by millions not only to gratify but even to speak of their
natural desires; and it is encouraged by the callousness of an age which
has accustomed men to buy and sell for money every most precious thing --
even the life-long labor of their brothers, therefore why not also the
very bodies of their sisters?
                -- Edward Carpenter (1844-1929)
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Wars frequently begin ten years before the first shot is fired.
                -- K. K. V. Casey (1877-?)
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Poverty is the mother of crime.
                -- Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus (490-575)
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats.  I speak the truth, and
they never believe me.
                -- Camillo di Cavour (1810-1861)
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You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.
                -- Camillo di Cavour (1810-1861)
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There are only two families in the world, the Haves and the Have-nots.
                -- de Cervantes (1547-1616)
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The real value of freedom is not to the minority that wants to talk,
but to the majority, that does not want to listen.
                -- Zechariah Chaffe, Jr. (1885-1957)
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What is constitutional may still be unwise.
                -- Zechariah Chaffe, Jr. (1885-1957)
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You make men love their government and their country by giving them
the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and
love:  a country that is free and unafraid, that lets the discontented
talk in order to learn the causes of their discontent and end those causes.
                -- Zechariah Chaffe, Jr. (1885-1957)
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It is advocacy of revolution by force and violence to write:  "I hold
a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in
the political world as storms in the physical."  Out go the works of
Thomas Jefferson.  It is advocacy of change of government by assassination
to say, "The right of nation to kill a tyrant in cases of necessity can
no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea."  Jefferson
is followed by his old antagonist, John Adams, the author of the Sedition
Law of 1798.            -- Zechariah Chaffe, Jr. (1885-1957)
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The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore
be hushed.  A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be
propagated.  If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war
and they are screened at once from scrutiny...  In war, then, as in peace,
assert the freedom of speech and of the press.  Cling to this as the
bulwark of all our rights and privileges.
                -- William Ellery Channing (1780-1842)
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  Mourn not the dead...
  But rather mourn the apathetic throng --
  The cowed and meek
  Who see the world's great anguish and its wrong,
  And dare not speak.
                -- Ralph Cahplin (1887-1961)
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Natural resources and inanimate energy ... are increasingly regarded as
affected with a public interest... Certainly they were left by God or
geology to mankind and not to the Standard Oil Company of California.
If this is not sound moral doctrine, I do not know what is.
                -- Stuart Chase (1888-?)
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If ever the multitude deviate into the right, it is always for the wrong
reason.                -- Fourth Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
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Politicians neither love nor hate.  Interest, not sentiment, directs
them.                -- Fourth Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
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We do not need a censorship of the press.  We have a censorship of the press.
                -- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting.  It has been
found difficult, and left untried.
                -- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
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There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals.  The real
American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
                -- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
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"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying
except in a desperate case.  It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
                -- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
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All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
                -- Chou En-lai (1898-?)
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Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.
                -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
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There is no fortress so strong that money cannot take it.
                -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
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I would rather be wrong with Plato than right with such men as these.
                -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
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"Vivere est cogitare."

(To think is to live.)
                -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
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[Freedom is] the power to live as you will.  Who then lives as he wills?
                -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
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We must further expressly and exactly establish the point of view,
no less necessary in practice, from which war is regarded as nothing
but the continuation of state policy with other means.
                -- Karl von Clausewitz (1780-1831)
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War is much too serious to be left to the generals.
                -- Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929)
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America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly
from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
                -- Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929)
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He mocks the people who proposes that the Government shall protect the
rich and they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
                -- Grover Cleveland (1837-1908)
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The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital.
This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he can neither
prey on the misfortune of others nor hoard his labor.
                -- Grover Cleveland (1837-1908)
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Make no laws whatever concerning speech and, speech will be free; so soon
as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have
a hundred lawyers proving that "freedom deos not mean abuse, nor liberty
license;" and they will define and define freedom out of existence.
                -- Voltarine de Cleyre (1866-1912)
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... so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who
wish to tyrranize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will
devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise,
to put shackles upon sleeping men.
                -- Voltarine de Cleyre (1866-1912)
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Tsze-kung asked, saying, "Is there one word which may serve as a rule of
practice for all one's life?"  The Master said, "Is not Reciprocity such
a word?  What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
                -- Confucius (551-479 B.C.)
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In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of.
In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.
                -- Confucius (551-479 B.C.)
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The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands
what will sell.            -- Confucius (551-479 B.C.)
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
                -- Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)
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Civilization and profits go hand in hand.
                -- Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)
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I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President.  And
I think I'll go along with them.
                -- Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)
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There is fast forming in this country an aristocracy of wealth, the
worst form of aristocracy that can curse the prosperity of a nation.
                -- Peter Cooper (1791-1883)
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Concerning players, we have thought it fit to excommunicate them so
long as they continue to act.
                -- First Council of Arles (314)
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  (While you and i have lips and voices which
  are for kissing and to sing with
  who cares if some oneeyed son of a bitch
  invents an instrument to measure Spring with?
                -- e. e. cummings (1894-1963)
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For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act.
                -- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
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The employer puts his money into ... business and the workman his life.
The one has as much right as the other to regulate that business.
                -- Clarence S. Darrow (1857-1938)
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably aboreal in its
habits...  For my part I would as soon be descended from [a] baboon
... as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies ... treats
his wives like slaves ... and is haunted by the grossest suspicions.
                -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
                -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
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When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved,
as a rule the majority are wrong.  The minority are right.
                -- Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926)
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The master class has always brought a war and the subject class has always
fought the battle.  The master class has had all to gain and nothing
to lose, and the subject class has had all to lose and nothing to gain.
                -- Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926)
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over
200 varieties of cheese.    -- Charles de Gaulle (1890-?)
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Every country has the government it merits.
                -- Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821)
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[It would be safer] never to participate in anything in the future without
consulting the American Legion or your local Chamber of Commerce.
                -- Martin Dies (1900-?)
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Fascism in America will attempt to advance under the banner of Americanism
and anti-Fascism.        -- Georgi Dimitrov (1882-1949)
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Conform and be dull.        -- J. Frank Dobie (1888-?)
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No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe ... every man is a peece of the
Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea,
Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as a
Mannor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for
whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
                -- John Donne (1573?-1631)
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
                -- Fyodor Dostoyevski (1821-1881)
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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
                -- Norman Douglas (1868-1952)
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You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
                -- Norman Douglas (1868-1952)
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The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.
                -- Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980)
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The worst provincialism of which America can be guilty is the provincialism
of prejudice, racial prejudice, prejudice against new and challenging ideas.
                -- Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980)
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Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all
subversions.  It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
                -- Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980)
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There are revolutions that are sweeping the world and we in America have been
in a position of trying to stop them.  With all the wealth of America, with
all of the military strength of America, those revolutions are revolutions
against a form of political and economic organization in the countries of
Asia and the Middle East that are oppressive.  They are revolutions against
feudalism. [1952]
                -- Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980)
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Government should be concerned with anti-social conduct, not with
utterances.            -- Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980)
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.... I did not,
when a slave, understand the deep meanings of those rude, and apparently
incoherent songs.  I was myself within the circle, so that I neither saw
nor heard as those without might see and hear.  They told a tale which
was then altogether beyond my feeble comprehension:  they were tones,
loud, long and deep, breathing the prayer and complaint of souls boiling
over with the bitterest anguish.  Every tone was a testimony against
slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
                -- Frederick Douglass (1817?-1895)
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Power concedes nothing without a demand.  It never did, and it never will.
Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact
amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these
will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with
both.  The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom
they surpress.            -- Frederick Douglass (1817?-1895)
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He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who
dares not, is a slave.
                -- William Drummond (1585-1640)
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  Damned Neuters, in their Middle way of Steering,
  Are neither Fish, nor Flesh, nor good Red Herring.
                -- John Dryden (1631-1700)
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Never was a patriot yet, but was a fool.
                -- John Dryden (1631-1700)
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My father was a creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey;
my family, it seems, begins where yours left off.
                -- Alexandre Dumas, pere (1802-1870)
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Don't ask f'r rights.  Take thim.  An' don't let anny wan give thim to
ye.  A right that is handed to ye f'r nawthin' has somethin' th' matter
with it. [On Woman Suffrage.]
            -- Finley Peter Dunne ("Mr. Dooley") (1867-1936)
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Don't put no constrictions on da people.  Leave 'em ta hell alone.
                -- Jimmie Durante (1893-1980)
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A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
                -- Max Eastman (1883-?)
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There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real
labor of thinking.        -- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
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... For many things which go under my name are badly translated from the
German or are invented by other people.
                -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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The craving for power which characterizes the governing class in every
nation is hostile to any limitation of the national sovereignty.
                -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes
life easier, bring us so little happiness?  The simple answer runs:
Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.
                -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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No wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the
most devoted worker in this cause ... Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus,
or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?
                -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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The greater the number of laws, the greater the number of offenses
against them.            -- Havelock Ellis (1859-1939)
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It is only the great men who are truly obscene.  If they had not dared
to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
                -- Havelock Ellis (1859-1939)
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We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of
conservatism, or radicalism, is the attitude one takes with respect to
accumulated wealth.  Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy
is called conservatism, and whatever favors anything else, no matter what
they call socialism.        -- Richard T. Ely (1854-1943)
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The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader,
and of the merchants a merchant.
                -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little
statesmen and philosophers and divines.
                -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
                -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
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  Things are in the saddle,
  And ride mankind.
                -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
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A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are
used by the poorest members of society; e.g., grain, bread, beer, wine,
clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist.
                -- Desiderius Erasmus (1465-1536)
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The stamping out of the artist is one of the blind goals of every
civilization.  When a civilization becomes so standardized that the
individual can no longer make an imprint on it, then that civilization
is dying.  The "mass mind" has taken over and another set of national
glories is heading for history's scrap heap.
                -- Elie Faure (1875-1937)
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The victor belongs to the spoils.
                -- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
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A conquerer is always a lover of peace.
                -- Karl Von Clausewitz (1780-1831)

[from "On war"; copied by Lenin in his notebook, with notation, "Ah,
Ah, witty".]
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Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
                -- Anatole France (1844-1924)
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To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price upon conjectures.
                -- Anatole France (1844-1924)
%%
There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for
an opinion.
                -- Anatole France (1844-1924)
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On croit mourir pour la patrie, on meurt pour des industriels.  (You
believe you're dying for the country -- you die for some industrialists.)
                -- Anatole France (1844-1924)
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You will generally find that everything is defiled with usurious contracts;
that those very persons have got together the greater part of their money
by sheer rapine, who nevertheless assert themselves so confidently to be
pure from all contagion of unjust gain.
                -- St. Francis Xavier (1506-1552)
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We have not tried to suppress true, legitimate liberty; on the contrary,
we have tried to preserve it.  We are for liberty, but liberty with order,
the kind of liberty which will not threaten the basic principles of our
nation, nor threaten its faith and unity.
                -- Francisco Franco (1892-?)
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Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise
that it will last; but nothing in this world is certain but death and taxes.
                -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
%%
Neurosis seems to be a human privilege.
                -- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
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The mind is an iceberg -- it floats with only one-seventh of its bulk
over water.            -- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
%%
The goal of all life is death.
                -- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
%%
Despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, I have not yet
been able to answer ... the great question that has never been answered:
What does a woman want?        -- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
%%
The history of the world which is still taught to our children is essentially
a series of race murders.    -- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
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The very emphasis of the commandment:  Thou shalt not kill, makes it
certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations
of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps
also in ours.            -- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
%%
Love cannot be much younger than the lust for murder.
                -- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
%%
He [Theodore Roosevelt] got down on his knees before us.  We bought the
s.o.b. but he didn't stay bought.
                -- Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919)
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The danger of the past was that men became slaves.  The danger of the
future is that men may become robots.  True enough, robots do not rebel.
But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane.
                -- Erich Fromm (1900-?)
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Wild animals never kill for sport.  Man is the only one to whom the
torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
                -- James A. Froude (1818-1894)
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The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor
immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both
philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error
of faith.        -- Roman Congregation decision against Galileo
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To command the professors of astronomy to confute their own observations is
to enjoin an impossibility, for it is to command them not to see what they
do see, and not to understand what they do understand, and to find what they
do not discover.        -- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
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There is just one rule for politicians all over the world:  Don't say
in Power what you said in Opposition; if you do, you only have to carry
out what the other fellows have found impossible.
                -- John Galsworthy (1867-1933)
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Where there is fear, there is no religion.
                -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
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Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.
                -- Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
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As far as I can see, the greater amount of education which a part of
the working class has employed for some years past, is an evil.  It
is dangerous because it makes them independent.
            -- J. Geddes (1865) [British glassworks owner]
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I desire what is good; therefore, every one who does not agree with
me is a traitor.        -- George III (1738-1820)
%%
How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?
                -- Henry George (1839-1897)
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The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all
considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally
false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.
                -- Edward Gibbon (1734-1794)
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Man is nature's sole mistake.
                -- W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911)
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If the day should ever come when we [the Nazis] must go, if some day we
are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard
that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction.
                -- Joseph Paul Goebbels (1897-1945)
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It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of
public opinion.            -- Joseph Paul Goebbels (1897-1945)
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Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.
                -- Joseph Paul Goebbels (1897-1945)
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem,
see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable
words.                -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
%%
National hatred is something peculiar.  You will always find it strongest
and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
                -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they
are free.            -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
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Show me the country in which there are no strikes and I'll show that
country in which there is no liberty.
                -- Samuel Gompers (1850-1924)
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The function of the intellectual has always been confined, in the main,
to embellishing the bored existence of the bourgeoisie, to consoling
the rich in the trivial troubles of their life.  The intelligentsia
was the nurse of the capitalist class.  It was kept busy embroidering
white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the
bourgeoisie -- that old and filthy fabric, besmeared so thickly with the
blood of the toiling masses.
                -- Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)
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From the polluted fountain of indifferentism flows that absurd and
erroneous doctrine or rather raving which claims and defends liberty
of conscience for everyone.  From this comes, in a word, the worst
plague of all, namely, unrestrained liberty of opinion and freedom
of speech.            -- Gregory XVI (1765-1846)
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As long as I am mayor of this city [Jersey City, New Jersey] the great
industries are secure.  We hear about constitutional rights, free speech
and the free press.  Every time I hear these words I say to myself, "That
man is a Red, that man is a Communist".  You never hear a real American
talk like that.            -- Frank Hague (1896-1956)
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The law regards man as man and takes no account of his surroundings or
of of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme
law of the land are involved.
        -- Justice John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911)
        [Sole dissent, Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896)]
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  Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
  Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
                -- James Harrington (1611-1677)
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it can never forgive
the preaching of a new gospel.
                -- Frederic Harrison (1831-1923)
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I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures
of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer
and the poor poorer.        -- William Henry Harrison (1773-1841)
%%
Motivation researchers are those harlot social scientists who, in impressive
analytic and/or sociological jargon, tell their clients what their clients
want to hear, namely that appeals to human irrationality are likely to
be far more profitable than appeals to rationality.
                -- S. I. Hayakawa (b. 1906)
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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy.  The repentance of a
hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
                -- William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
%%
Indifferent pictures, like dull people, must absolutely be moral.
                -- William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
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The majority, compose them how you will, are a herd, and not a nice one.
                -- William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
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There is no more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful,
envious, ungrateful animal than the Public.  It is the greatest of
cowards, for it is afraid of itself.
                -- William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
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Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.
                -- William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
%%
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal
that is struck with the difference between what things are and what
they ought to be.        -- William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
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Everywhere and at all times men of commerce have had neither heart and
soul; their cash-box is their God. ... They traffic in all things, even
human flesh. ...  Could it ever be expected that such worthless creatures
could become citizens?  Above all, a freeman must be humane and disinterested;
he must sacrifice everything for his country.  Their country?  Foutre!
Businessmen have no such thing.
                -- Jacques Rene Hebert (1755-1794)
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The artist isn't made by a haberdasher and a left-wing editorial.  He's
made by the explosive in him that bears the label, "Beware Uniformity."
                -- Ben Hecht (1894-?)
%%
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good
Lord has not created money enough.
                -- Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
%%
Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil
one.  To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.
                -- Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
%%
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand --
its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
                -- Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
%%
What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what
you feel bad after.        -- Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961)
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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency;
the second is war.  Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a
permanent ruin.  But both are the refuge of political and economic
opportunists.            -- Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961)
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There is nothing permanent except change.
                -- Heraclitus (540?-475? B.C.)
%%
Even if you could grow hair on a billiard ball, you couldn't comb
it without a cowlick.
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"What does a Scotsman have under his kilt?"

"A leg at each corner."
                -- Heard on National Public Radio (1981)
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"What does a Scotsman have under his kilt?"

"Well, the more Presbyterian you are, the more likely you
are to feel the need for something."
                -- Heard on National Public Radio (1981)
%%
When asked for his own [favourite poem], Dylan [Thomas] slowly said,
"This is the best poem in the English language," and then repeated
gravely and with feeling these lines:

    I am
    Thou art
    He, she, it is
    We are
    You are
    They are.
                -- Richard Burton, quoted in Andrew
                    Sinclair's "No Man More Magical"
%%
Question: "Do you think the State or any other institution should do more
for writers?"

Answer: The State should do no more for writers than it should do for any
other person who lives in it.  The State should give shelter, food, warmth,
etc., whether the person works for the State or not.  Choice of work,
and the money that comes from it, should then be free for that man;
what work, what money, is his own bother.
                -- Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
%%
My advice to young people who wish to earn their living by writing is: DO.
                -- Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
%%
  Few understand the works of Cummings,
  And few James Joyce's mental slummings,
  And few young Auden's coded chatter;
  But then it is the few that matter.
  Never be lucid, never state,
  If you would be regarded great,
  The simplest thought or sentiment,
  (For thought, we know, is decadent) ...
                -- Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
%%
... he was excusing his [Dylan Thomas's] lateness in replying to a letter,
because of

"the abominable cold cramping the fingers, elongating the sweet hours of
bed, and forcing, eventually, the tired half sleeper to erect a small fire
in an insufficient grate; the skin of laziness, cancelling the positive
virtue that regards sin and virtue lazily, equally and equably; the lack of
ink...; the worries of a life that consists, for the most part, in building
the brain on paper and pulling down the body, the small and too weak body
to stand either the erection of a proper brain or the rubbing of saloon
counters:  the pressure of words, the lack of stamps, flu in embryo..."
                -- Andrew Sinclair, "No Man More Magical"
%%
Many writers are bad at being promiscuous with women, from the certainty
of knowing how the affair will end before it has even begun.
                -- Andrew Sinclair, "No Man More Magical"
%%
It is hard to fight for one's heart's desire.  Whatever it wishes to
get, it purchases at the cost of soul.
                -- Heraclitus (540?-475? B.C.)
%%
The ignorance of the working-class and the superior intelligence of the
privileged class are superstitions -- are superstitions fostered by
intellectual mercenaries, by universities and churches, and by all
the centers of privilege.
                -- George D. Herron (1862-1925)
%%
There is no one orthodoxy which is the enemy of democracy.  All of them are.
                -- James Higgins
%%
Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.
                -- Sidney Hillman (1887-1946)
%%
Life is short, art long, occasion sudden; to make experiments dangerous;
judgment difficult.  Neither is it sufficient that the physician do
his office, unless the patient and his attendants do their duty,
and that externals are likewise well ordered.
                -- Hippocrates (460?-370? B.C.)
%%
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
                -- Hippocrates (460?-370? B.C.)
%%
I will not give to a woman an instrument to procure abortion.
                -- Hippocrates (460?-370? B.C.)
                   (Hippocratic oath.)
%%
The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed,
for the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more
easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad.  The
primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a
big lie than to a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies
but would be ashamed to tell big ones.
                -- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) "Mein Kampf"
%%
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made
to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the
most wretched sort of life as paradise.
                -- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) "Mein Kampf"
%%
The German has no idea how much the people must be misled if the support
of the masses is required.
                -- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) "Mein Kampf"
%%
Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
                -- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) "Mein Kampf"
%%
Hate is more lasting than dislike.
                -- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) "Mein Kampf"
%%
Either the world will be governed according to the ideas of modern
democracy and then the weight of any decision will result in favor of
the numerically stronger races, or the world will be dominated in
accordance with the laws of the natural order of force, and then it is
the peoples of brutal will who will conquer.
                -- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) "Mein Kampf"
%%
We stand for the maintenance of private property.... We shall protect
free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible
economic order.            -- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) "Der Fruehrer"
%%
The Value, or <<Worth>> of a man, is as  of all other things, his price;
that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.
And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer, determines
the price.            -- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
%%
The tendency of all strong Governments has always been to suppress liberty,
partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly from sheer disbelief
in innovation.            -- J. A. Hobson (1858-1940)
%%
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
                -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.) (1809-1894)
%%
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
                -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.) (1809-1894)
%%
No generalization is wholly true, not even this one.
                -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) (1841-1935)
%%
The character of every act depends on the circumstances in which it is
done.  The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect
a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
                -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) (1841-1935)
%%
We have to choose, and for my part I think it a less evil that some criminals
should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part.
                -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) (1841-1935)
%%
Freedom of contract begins where equality of bargaining power begins.
                -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) (1841-1935)
%%
  Man's a kind of missing link.
  Fondly thinking he can think.
                -- Piet Hein
%%
We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than
ever before in the history of any land.
                -- Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)
%%
Money by right means if you can; if not, by any means.
                -- Horace (c. 65 B.C.)
%%
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books
than we do for chewing gum.
                -- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
%%
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
                -- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
%%
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still
call him vile names.        -- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
%%
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
                -- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
%%
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
                -- Frank McKinney Hubbard (1868-1930)
%%
I never vote; it only encourages them.
%%
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the
streets and frighten the horses.
%%
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
                -- Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
%%
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
                -- Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895)
%%
A beautiful theory, killed by a nasty, ugly, little fact.
                -- Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895)
%%
The only beast in the Plaza de Toros is the crowd.
                -- Vicente Blasco Ibanez (1867-1928)
%%
"Mejor morir a pie que vivir en rodillas."

(Better to die on one's feet than live on one's knees.)
            -- Dolores Ibarruri (La Pasionaria) (1895-?)
%%
The minority is always in the right.
                -- Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
%%
"While I was at home with father, he used to tell me his opinions, and I
held the same opinions.  If I had others, I concealed them, because he
wouldn't have liked it."  (Nora, in "A Doll's House")
                -- Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
%%
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
                -- Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899)
%%
It is Mr. Mellon's credo that $200,000,000 can do no wrong.  Our offense
consists in doubting it.
                -- Justice Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954)
%%
[Smoking is] a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to
the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof,
nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
                -- James I (1566-1625)
%%
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
                -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
%%
All riches come from iniquity, and unless one has lost, another cannot gain.
Hence that common opinion seems to be very true, "the rich man is unjust,
or the heir to an unjust one."  Opulence is always the result of theft,
if not committed by the actual possessor, than by his predecessor.
                -- St. Jerome (340?-420)
%%
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
                -- St. Jerome (340?-420)
%%
I do not, however, assert that the actor is dishonorable when he follows
his profession, although it is undoubtedly dishonorable to be an actor.
            -- John of Salisbury (called Parvus) (1115?-1180)
%%
Patiotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
                -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
%%
When I hear the word "Culture" I pick up my Browning.
                -- Hanns Johst (1890-?)
%%
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at
strangers, it is patriotism!
                -- David Starr Jordan (1851-1931)
%%
  "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," -- that is all
  Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
                -- John Keats (1795-1821)
%%
Life is short; live it up.
                -- Nikita S. Krushchev (1894-?)
%%
The land of the free!  This is the land of the free!  Why, if I say anything
that displeases them, the free mob will lynch me, and that's my freedom.
Free?  Why I have never been in any country where the individual has such an
abject fear of his fellow countrymen.  Because, as I say, they are free to
lynch him the moment he shows he is not one of them.
                -- D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
%%
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, she's a dry stick
as a rule.            -- D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
%%
This is the great pornographical class -- the really common men-in-the-street
and women-in-the-street.... They insist that a film-heroine shall be a
neuter, a sexless thing of washed-out purity.  They insist that real
sex-feeling shall only be shown by the villain or villainess ... they have
the grey disease of sex-hatred, coupled with the yellow disease of dirt-lust.
                -- D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
%%
Between 1950 and 1952, a bored weatherman, stationed north of Hudson
Bay, left a monument that neither government nor time can eradicate.
Using a bulldozer abandoned by the Air Force, he spent two years and
great effort pushing boulders into a single word.

It can be seen from 10,000 feet, silhouetted against the snow. Government
officials exchanged memos full of circumlocutions (no Latin equivalent exists)
but failed to word an appropriation bill for the destruction of this cairn,
that wouldn't alert the press and embarrass both Parliament and Party.

It stands today, a monument to human spirit.  If life exists on other
planets, this may be the first message received from us.
                -- The Realist, November, 1964.
%%
  +-------------------+
  |                   |
  |   Check one:      |
  |                   |
  |   [ ]  BANG       |
  |                   |
  |   [ ]  whimper    |
  |                   |
  +-------------------+
                -- Bhob Stewart and T. S. Eliot
                   The Realist, November, 1962
%%
I would rather see my four daughters shot before my eyes than to have
them grow up in a Communist United States.  I would rather see those kids
blown into Heaven than taught into hell by the Communists.
                -- Pat Boone, (c.a. 1962)
%%
"In another paper delivered today, Paul W. Kinsie of the American Social
Health Association warned that, if the moon was to be kept free from
venereal disease, prostitution must be banned there."
                -- The Realist, November, 1962
%%
Satyr is a Sort of Glass, wherein Beholders do generally discover
every Body's Face but their Own; which is the chief Reason for that
Kind Reception it meets with.
                -- Jonathan Swift
%%
We think it's much better to entertain people and get medals
than to kill them and get medals for that.
                -- Paul McCartney (c.a. 1965)
%%
Sincerity is often the measure of your adaptability to adjust to
the opinions of those who can fire you.
                -- John Francis Putnam (1964)
%%
A man may be completely truthful about the number of times he has
had sex, but never about his endurance.
                -- John Francis Putnam (1964)
%%
The first gift of maturity is the ability to look a child straight
in the eye.            -- John Francis Putnam (1964)
%%
Righteous indignation is bravery in a closet.
                -- John Francis Putnam (1964)
%%
The intensity of anxiety when you tell a lie is nothing
compared to the relief when you find out it is believed.
                -- John Francis Putnam (1964)
%%
Only in America can humanitarianism be suspect to the patriot.
                -- John Francis Putnam (1964)
%%
Those who are bored with your tale of persecution are only too happy
to listen to your plans for revenge.
                -- John Francis Putnam (1964)
%%
Chicago has such staunch Democrats that they rise out of the grave
to vote -- sometimes three or four times.
%%
  If it moves, salute it,
  If it doesn't move, pick it up.
  If you can't pick it up, paint it.
                -- U. S. Army
%%
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth but most of the
time he will pick himself up and continue on.
                -- W. S. Churchill
%%
A consultant is a person who borrows your watch, tells you what time
it is, pockets the watch, and sends you a bill for it.
%%
Comedy is someone else slipping on a banana peel.
%%
It's easy to make decisions if you don't know the facts.
%%
  All that is gold does not glitter,
    Nor all those who wander are lost;
  The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not touched by the frost.
                -- J. R. R. Tolkien
%%
"A ring of power looks after itself, Frodo.  It may slip off treacherously,
but its keeper never abandons it."
                -- J. R. R. Tolkien
%%
"Many that live deserve death, and some that die deserve life.  Can you
give it to them?  Then, do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement."
                -- J. R. R. Tolkien
%%
If there is an atomic attack and you survive, as a postal employee you
are directed to report to the nearest postal installation for civil
defense or postal work.  A civil service form 600 must be filled out
by you at this time.
        -- Post office pamphlet, quoted in The Realist, May 1970
%%
Eros spelled backwards is sore.
                -- Paul Krassner
%%
There is no wild beast so ferocious as Christians who differ concerning
their faith.            -- W. E. H. Lecky (1838-1903)
%%
In this enlightened age there are few, I believe, but what will acknowledge
that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil in any country.
It is useless to expiate on its disadvantages.  I think it, however,
a greater evil to the white than to the black race, and while my feelings
are strongly enlisted in behalf of the latter, my sympathies are more
strong for the former.
                -- Robert E. Lee. (1807-1870)
%%
The dictatorship of the proletariat is nothing else than power based
upon force and limited by nothing -- by no law and by absolutely no rule.
                -- V. I. Lenin (1870-1924)
%%
Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureaucracy,
no police, no standing army.
                -- V. I. Lenin (1870-1924)
%%
The Russian soldier is our friend.  He is here to protect us.
            -- English language textbook in Bulgaria (c.a. 1967)
%%
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations?  It cannot.
                -- V. I. Lenin (1870-1924)
%%
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will
never be uprooted.        -- V. I. Lenin (1870-1924)
%%
Why should freedom of speech and freedom of the press be allowed?
Why should a government which is doing what it believes is right allow
itself to be criticized?  It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons.
Ideas are much more fatal things than guns.
                -- V. I. Lenin (1870-1924)
%%
To despise legitimate authority, no matter in whom it is invested, is
unlawful; it is rebellion against God's will.
                -- Leo XIII (1810-1903)
%%
A state from which religion is banished can never be well regulated.
                -- Leo XIII (1810-1903)
%%
The liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without
any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society can wisely
rejoice.  On the contrary, it is the fountainhead and origin of many evils.
                -- Leo XIII (1810-1903)
%%
The highest duty is to respect authority.
                -- Leo XIII (1810-1903)
%%
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold
weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
                -- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
%%
If we must grind up human flesh and bones in an industrial machine -- in
the industrial machine that we call modern America -- then, before God,
I assert that those who consume coal, and you and I who benefit from that
service -- because we live in comfort -- owe protection to those men first,
and we owe security to their families after, if they die.  I say it! I
voice it!  I proclaim it!  And I care not who in heaven or hell oppose it.
                -- John L. Lewis (1880-?)
%%
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way
of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
                -- Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)
%%
The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood
of genius and generosity.    --  Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
%%
The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in
effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the
Declaration not for that, but for future use.
                --  Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
%%
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can
exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary
right to dismember or overthrow it.
                --  Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
%%
Abroad in the world today is a monstrous falsehood, a consummate fabrication,
to which all social agencies have loaned themselves and into which most men,
women, and children have been seduced ... "the Eleventh Commandment"; for
such, indeed, has become the injunction:  You Must Adjust.
                -- Robert M. Lindner (1915-1956)
%%
If Fascism came to America it would be on a program of Americanism.
                -- Huey P. Long (1893-1935)
%%
Both of them [Breckenridge and Douglas, Lincoln's opponents] mean that
Labor has no rights which Capital is bound to respect, -- that there
is no higher law than human interest and cupidity.
                -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
%%
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the
friction of social contacts....  It is only in lies, wholeheartedly
and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech
the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being
what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.
                -- Clare Boothe Luce (1903-?)
%%
I decline Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international,
and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth.
                -- Erich von Ludendorff (1865-1937)
                  "Belief in a German God"
%%
The conversion of one species into another takes place by a leap.
                -- Trofim Lysenko (1898-?)
%%
Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
                -- Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
%%
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear,
but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
                -- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)
%%
In taking possession of a state the conqueror should well reflect as
to the harsh measures that may be necessary, and then execute them
at a single blow.... Cruelties should be committed all at once.
                -- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
%%
It is far safer to be feared than loved.
                -- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
%%
How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.
                -- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
%%
Domestic revolutions are most commonly occasioned by people who have
property, because the fear of losing what they have begets in them
the same passions that burn in the hearts of those who desire to
seize property, because men think they own securely only those
things that they have taken or defended successfully from others.
                -- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
%%
Men, iron, money and bread are the strength of the war, but of these
four, the first two are the most necessary; because men and iron
find money and bread, but bread and money find not men and iron.
                -- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
%%
The remedy in the United States is not less liberty but real liberty --
an end to the brutal intolerance of churchly hooligans and flag-waving
corporations and all the rest of the small but bloody despots who have
made the word Americanism a synonym for coercion and legal crime.
                -- Archibald MacLeash (b. 1892)
%%
The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be
heard in its defense are silent.
                -- Archibald MacLeash (b. 1892)
%%
You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.
                -- William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951)
%%
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio....
Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio.
                -- Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834)
%%
There is one right, which man is generally thought to possess, which I
am confident he neither does, nor can, possess: a right to subsistence
when his labour will not fairly purchase it.  Our laws indeed say that
he has this right, and bind the society to furnish employment and food
to those who cannot get them in the regular market; but in so doing,
they attempt to reverse the laws of nature.
                -- Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834)
%%
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
                -- Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
%%
Of what use is political liberty to those who have no bread?  It is of
value only to ambitious theorists and politicians.
                -- Jean Paul Marat (1743-1793)
%%
I cannot read, and wish all books were burnt.  I am lean with seeing
others eat.  O, that there would come a famine through all the world,
that all might die, and I live alone!  Then thou shoulds't see how
fat I would be.  [Envy, in "Faustus"]
                -- Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
%%
Religion is the soul of soulless conditions, the heart of a heartless
world, the opium of the people.
                -- Karl Marx (1818-1883)
%%
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, historical facts and personages
occur as it were, twice.  He forgets to add:  the first time as tragedy,
the second as farce.
                -- Karl Marx (1818-1883)
%%
From the commencement of the titanic struggle in America [the Civil War],
the working men of Europe felt instinctively that the Star Spangled
Banner carried the destiny of their class.
                -- Karl Marx (1818-1883)
                   Letter to President Lincoln, (1865)
%%
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
                -- Karl Marx (1818-1883)
%%
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes
are impossible without the feminine ferment.  Social progress can
be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex (the ugly
ones included).            -- Karl Marx (1818-1883)
%%
I, I am not a Marxist.
                -- Karl Marx (1818-1883)
%%
The daily press and the telegraph which in a moment spreads inventions
over the whole world, fabricate more myths ... in a day than could
have formerly been done in a century.
                -- Karl Marx (1818-1883)
%%
Capitalism will kill competition.
                -- Karl Marx (1818-1883)
%%
Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer
and cannot exult.
                -- John Masefield (1878-?)
%%
Success is the brand on the brow of the man who has aimed too low.
                -- John Masefield (1878-?)
%%
That which goes contrary to the prevailing taste is, for me, the most
precious of things.... Whatever is scorned, despised or not understood
by the society in which one lives has prospects for the future.
                -- Andre Masson (1896-?)
%%
Money is like a sixth sense -- and you can't make use of the other five
without it.            -- W. S. Maugham (1874-?)
%%
Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the
power.                -- Joseph M. McCabe (1867-1957)
%%
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing
exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by
the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.
                -- Herman Melville (1819-1891)
%%
They talk of the dignity of work.  Bosh.  The dignity is in leisure.
                -- Herman Melville (1819-1891)
%%
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair
we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.
                -- Herman Melville (1819-1891)
                "Moby Dick"
%%
Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by
an appeal to the unintelligible.
                -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
%%
A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States
than he could be elected Pope of Rome.  Both high posts are reserved
for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing
the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.
                -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
%%
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he
knows to be idiots.        -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
%%
Truth ... never comes into the world, but like a Bastard, to the ignominy
of him that brought her forth.
                -- John Milton (1608-1674)
%%
Fear and dull disposition, lukewarmness and sloth, are not seldom wont
to cloak themselves under the affected name of Moderation.
                -- John Milton (1608-1674)
%%
  The mind is its own place, and in itself
  Can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
                -- John Milton (1608-1674)
                "Paradise Lost" bk. i, 253
%%
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
                -- Jean Baptiste Moliere (1622-1673)
                "Tartuffe"
%%
I prefer an accomodating vice to an obstinate virtue.
                -- Jean Baptiste Moliere (1622-1673)
%%
Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.
                -- President James Monroe (1758-1831)
%%
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and
actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
                -- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
%%
Question: "Do you consider $10 a week enough for a longshoreman with
a family to support?"

Answer: "If that's all he can get, and he takes it, I should say it's enough."
                -- J. P. Morgan (1837-1913)
%%
If you take credit for the rain, don't be surprised if you're blamed
for the drought.
             -- Dwight W. Morrow (1873-1931) (Paraphrased)
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Attempted assassinations are the accidents of kings, just as falling
chimneys are the accidents of masons.  If we must weep, let us weep
for the masons.
                -- Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
                -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
%%
Anti-Semites -- another name for "failures."
                -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
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  War is peace,
  Freedom is slavery,
  Ignorance is strength.
                -- George Orwell (1903-1950) "1984"
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The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.  And
since the party is in full control of all records, and in equally
full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past
is whatever the party chooses to make it.  Six means eighteen,
two plus two equals five, war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance
is strength.
                -- George Orwell (1903-1950)  "1984"
%%
Thoughts are free and are subject to no rule.  On them rests the freedom
of man, and they tower above the light of nature.
                -- von Hohenheim (1493-1541)
%%
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison.  The dosage
makes it either a poison or a remedy.
                -- von Hohenheim (1493-1541)
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  Razors pain you,
  Rivers are damp,
  Acids stain you,
  And drugs give you cramp.
  Guns aren't lawful,
  Nooses give,
  Gas smells awful,
  You might as well live.
                -- Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
%%
We all know that art is not truth.  Art is the lie that makes us realize
truth -- at least the truth that is given us to understand.
                -- Pablo Picasso (1891-?)
%%
Everyone knows that damage is done to the soul by bad motion pictures.
                -- Pius XI (1857-1939)
%%
Reader, suppose you were an idiot.  And suppose you were a member of
Congress.  But I repeat myself.
                -- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
%%
The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor
to sleep under bridges, to beg in the street, and to steal bread.
                -- Anatole France (1844-1924)
%%
Necessity has no law; I know some Lawyers of the same.
                -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
%%
  Breathes there a man with hide so tough
  Who says two sexes aren't enough.
            -- Samuel Goodman Hoffenstein (1890-1946)
%%
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think
you'll be amused by its presumption.
                -- James Thurber (1894-1961)
%%
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
                -- James Thurber (1894-1961)
%%
The rulers of the State are the only ones who should have the privilege
of lying, whether at home or abroad;  they may be allowed to lie for
the good of the State.
                -- Plato (427-347 B.C.)? "The Republic"
%%
Any ordinary city is in fact two cities, one the city of the poor,
the other of the rich, each at war with the other; and in either division
there are smaller ones -- you would make a great mistake if you
treated them as single states.
                -- Plato (427-347 B.C.)? "The Republic"
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of
amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of
the child.
                -- Plato (427-347 B.C.)? "The Republic"
%%
... And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of
invention.
                -- Plato (427-347 B.C.)? "The Republic"
%%
Then the first thing will be to establish a censorship of the writers of
fiction, and let the censors receive any tale of fiction which is good,
and reject the bad; and we will desire mothers and nurses to tell their
children the authorized ones only.
                -- Plato (427-347 B.C.)? "The Republic"
%%
The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse
into greatness.... This and no other is the root from which tyranny
springs.
                -- Plato (427-347 B.C.)? "The Republic"
%%
... But when he [the people's champion] has disposed of foreign
enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them,
then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the
people may require a leader.
                -- Plato (427-347 B.C.)? "The Republic"
%%
Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom.  For herein is the evil
of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless
satisfied with himself; he has no desire for that of which he feels no want.
                -- Plato (427-347 B.C.)?
%%
He was a wise man who invented God.
                -- Plato (427-347 B.C.)?
%%
Even the gods love their jokes.
                -- Plato (427-347 B.C.)?
%%
The gods play games with men as pieces.
                -- Titus Maccius Plautus (254?-184 B.C.)

  "Raffinerat ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist Er nicht."
  (God is subtle, but He is not malicious.)
                -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
%%
The politician who steals is worse than a thief.  He is a fool.  With
the grand opportunities all around for a man with political pull,
there's no excuse for stealin' a cent.
                -- George Washington Plunkitt (1842-1924)
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  All nature is but art, unknown to thee;
  All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;
  All discord, harmony not understood;
  All partial evil, universal good;
  And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,
  One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
                -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
%%
Man is the measure of all things, of things that are that they are,
and of things that are not that they are not.
            -- Protagoras of Adera (481-411 B.C.)?
%%
  "Honesta turpitudo est pro causa bona."
  (Crime is honest in a good cause.)
                -- Publilius Syrus (1st cent. B.C.)
%%
Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what
thou believest, lest the greater part of what thou believest be the
least part of what is true.
                -- Francis Quarles (1592-1644)
%%
If you have a weak candidate and a weak platform, wrap yourself up
in the American flag and talk about the Constitution.
                -- Matt Quay (1833-1904)
%%
One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been
burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.
                -- Thomas B. Reed (1839-1902)
%%
The slum is the measure of civilization.
                -- Jacob Riis (1849-1914)
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  The net of law is spread so wide,
  No sinner from its sweep may hide.
  Its meshes are so fine and strong,
  They take in every child of wrong.
    O wondrous web of mystery!
    Big fish alone escape from thee!
                -- James Jeffrey Roche (1847-1908)
%%
I believe that thrift is essential to well ordered living.
                -- John D. Rockefeller (Jr.) (1874-1960)
%%
O liberty!  O liberty!  What crimes are commited in your name!
            -- Mme. Jeanne (Manon) Roland (1754-1793)
%%
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has
never learned how to walk forward.
                -- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
%%
The more we condemn unadulterated Marxian Socialism, the stouter
should be our insistence on thorough-going social reforms.
                -- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
%%
Tonight I give lecture to Art Students' League.  I want a picture
of a horse to show that animal is beautiful because every part made
for function, without ornament.  In Paris I would show woman, but
in Toronto I show a horse.
                -- Anonymous French artist (1931)
                from "The Book of Insults"
%%
His great aim was to escape from civilization, and, as soon as he had money,
he went to Southern California.
                -- from "The Book of Insults"
%%
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people.
                -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
%%
It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in
America when they have their mothers and their manners.
                -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
%%
Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.
                -- Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
%%
In the first place God made idiots; this was for practice; then
he made school boards.
                -- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
%%
From the moment I picked your book up until I put it down I was
convulsed with laughter.  Some day I intend reading it.
                -- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
                from "The Book of Insults"
%%
May you be cursed with a chronic anxiety about the weather.
                -- John Burroughs (1837-1921)
                from "The Book of Insults"
%%
Age before beauty ... And pearls before swine.
                -- Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
                from "The Book of Insults"
%%
Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs.
It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
                -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
%%
  There's a wonderful family called Stein,
  There's Gert and there's Epp and there's Ein;
    Gert's poems are bunk,
    Epp's statues are junk,
  And no one can understand Ein.
%%
The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise,
the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful, the dull, the imaginative,
the sensitive, the well-informed, the improvident, the irregularly and
impulsively wicked, the clumsy knave, the open thief, and the entirely
merciful, just, and godly person.
                -- John Ruskin (1819-1900)
%%
You may either win your peace or buy it; win it by resistance to evil;
buy it by compromise with evil.
                -- John Ruskin (1819-1900)
%%
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already
three parts dead.
                -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)
%%
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard,
chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
                -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)
%%
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast
majority by adequate governmental action.
                -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)
%%
The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power.
                -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)
%%
But schools are out to teach patriotism; newspapers are out to stir
up excitement; and politicians are out to get re-elected.  None of the
three, therefore, can do anything whatever toward saving the human race
from reciprocal suicide.
                -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)
%%
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised
love for power.
                -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)
%%
Men tend to have the beliefs that suit their passions.

Cruel men believe in a cruel God and use their belief to excuse their
cruelty.  Only kindly men believe in a kindly God, and they would
be kindly in any case.
                -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)
%%
Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
                -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)
%%
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions
makes it impossible to earn a living.
                -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)
%%
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists.
That is why they invented Hell.
                -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)
%%
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself
secure.
                -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)
%%
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while
it was recent.
                -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)
%%
Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human
incompetence.
                -- Dora Russell (1894-?)
%%
Those who have economic power have civil power also.
                -- George W. Russell (AE) (1867-1935)
%%
Authority and liberty are two incompatible ideas.... Liberty diminishes
in proportion as man progresses and becomes civilized.
                -- Antonio de Oliveira Salazar (1899-?)
%%
In the newspapers I often read this pitiful sentence:  "The people must
be taught to read," and I say to myself, What shall they read?  It is
education and undesirable literature, these are our enemies.
                -- Antonio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-?)
%%
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your
aim.
                -- George Santayana (1863-1952)
%%
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery
the soil of love.
                -- George Santayana (1863-1952)
%%
Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
                -- George Santayana (1863-1952)
%%
It is not worldly ecclesiastics that kindle the fires of persecution,
but mystics who think they hear the voice of God.
                -- George Santayana (1863-1952)
%%
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he
is responsible for everything he does.
                -- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-?)
%%
"Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens."

(Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.)
                -- Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)
%%
All those who dread uncertainty either because of timidity or from
conventional-mindedness or for fear of material loss are enlisted
under the conservative standard.
                -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. (1888-?)
%%
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the
correctness of a belief.
                -- Arthur Schnitzler (1882-1931)
%%
The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse
proportion to his mental capacity, and may therefore be regarded
as a pretty fair measure of it.... Noise is a torture to all intellectual
people.
                -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
%%
The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with
a vehement and passionate will.
                -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
%%
Truth that has merely been learned is like an artificial limb, a false
tooth, a waxen nose; it adheres to us only because it is put on.
But truth acquired by thought of our own is like a natural limb; it
alone really belongs to us.
                -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
%%
Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.
                -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
%%
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the
human head if only you begin to inculate it before the age of five,
by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
                -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
%%
Onto the lewd all things are lewd.
                -- Theodore Schroeder (1864-?)
%%
Censorship always protects and perpetuates every horror of the prevailing
forms of oppression.  With us, its subtle disguises increase its
evil by creating delusions of safety, liberty and democracy.
It precludes that intelligence which is necessary to hasten a wholesome
and natural social evolution.  By that same ignorance it makes revolutions
more certain, more bloody, and less useful.
                -- Theodore Schroeder (1864-?)
%%
Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.
                -- Gilbert Seldes (1893-?)
%%
Nothing is inevitable -- not even revolution.
                -- Gilbert Seldes (1893-?)
%%
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
                -- Seneca (the Younger) (4? B.C.-65 A.D.)
%%
In our Victorian dislike of the practice of calling a spade a bloody
shovel, it is not necessary to go to the opposite extreme of calling it an
agricultural implement.
                -- Robert W. Seton-Watson (1879-1951)
%%
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but
that of self interest backed by force.
                -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
%%
My way of joking is to tell the truth.  It's the funniest
joke in the world.
                -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
%%
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.
                -- George Bernard Shaw (1056-1950)
%%
The seven deadly sins... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability
and children.  Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck
but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted.
                -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
%%
Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands.
For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a sceptic
concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.
                -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
%%
Any person under the age of thirty, who, having any knowledge of the
existing social order, is not a revolutionist, is an inferior.
                -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
%%
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
                -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
%%
"... Each of my managers explained carefully his own theory of what
had gone wrong and all the theories were different.  At last, there breezed
into my office the most senior manager of all, ... Andrew St. Johnston.
I was surprised that he had even heard of me.  'You know what went
wrong?' he shouted -- he always shouted -- 'You let your programmers
do things which you yourself do not understand.' ... I realized later
that he was absolutely right."
                -- C. A. R. Hoare (1981)
%%
Democracy substitutes selection by the incompetent many for appointment by the
corrupt few.
                -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
%%
Liberty means responsibility.  That is why most men dread it.
                -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
%%
Beware of the man whose god is in the skies.
                -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
%%
The man who listens to Reason is lost:  Reason enslaves all whose minds
are not strong enough to master her.
                -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
%%
Do not waste your time on Social Questions.  What is the matter with the
poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
                -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
%%
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
                -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
%%
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of
the human race.
                -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
%%
A gentleman of our days is one who has money enough to do what every
fool would do if he could afford it:  that is, consume without producing.
                -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
%%
It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged
to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the
youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.
                -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
%%
I my self have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the
United States.  I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers.
I have defined the 100% American as 99% an idiot.  And they adore me.
                -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Dear Mr. Seldes:  I cannot remember the exact wording of the statement to
which you allude; but what I meant was that ... a man who calls himself a
100% American and is proud of it, is generally 150% an idiot politically.
But the designations may be good business for war veterans.  Having bled for
their country in 1861 and 1918, they have bled it all they could consequently.
And why not?"  [From George Seldes, The Great Quotations.]
%%
Food and houses and clothes can be produced by human labor, but when they are
produced they can be stolen... What you do to a horse or a bee, you can also
do to a man or a woman or a child.  You can get the upper hand of them by
force, or trickery of any sort, or even by teaching them that it is their
religious duty to sacrifice their freedom to ours.
                -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
%%
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of
power, corrupt power.
                -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
%%
There is only one sort of genuine Socialism, the democratic sort, by which
I mean the organization of society for the benefit of the whole people.
                -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
%%
Patriotism is pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
                -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
%%
Vox populi, vox humbug.
                -- William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891)
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There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys,
it is all hell.  You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come.
I look upon war with horror.
                -- William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891)
%%
If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four
years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
                -- William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891)
%%
How is it that the American, once he has attained his majority, appears
to us as the perfect conformist.  It is, perhaps, because he has exhausted
during his childhood and adolescence practically all his indiscipline and
anarchy, so that he has no difficulty later in life in integrating himself
into a collective society, which he himself fully accepts.
                -- Andre Siegfried (1875-1959)
%%
Every means tends to become an end.  To understand the tragedy of history it
is necessary to grasp that fact.  Machines, which ought to be man's
instruments, enslave him, the state enslaves religion, parliament enslaves
democracy, institutions enslave justice, academies enslave art, the party
enslaves the cause, the dictatorship of the proletariat enslaves Socialism.
                -- Ignazio Silone (1900-?)
%%
Fascism is Capitalism plus Murder.
                -- Upton Sinclair (1878-?)
%%
Fascism is big business armed with bayonets.
                -- Grant Singleton (1890-?)
%%
The apathy of the born freeman is worse than the docility of the born slave.
                -- Grant Singleton (1890-?)
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It may be taken as an axiom that the majority is always wrong in cultural
matters... Politically I believe in democracy, but culturally, not at all...
Whenever a cultural matter rolls up a majority, I know it's wrong.
                -- John Sloan (1871-1951)
%%
The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who
wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
                -- Adam Smith (1723-1790)
%%
It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour that all wealth of the world
was originally purchased; and its value, to those who possess it, and who want
to exchange it for some new productions, is precisely equal to the quantity of
labour which it can enable them to purchase or command.
                -- Adam Smith (1723-1790)
%%
Hark ye, Clinker, you are a most notorious offender.  You stand convicted of
sickness, hunger, wretchedness, and want.
                -- Tobias Smollet (1721-1771)
%%
But surely no capitalist would ever agree to the complete abolition of
unemployment, to the abolition of the reserve army of unemployed, the purpose
of which is to bring pressure on the labor market, to ensure a supply of
cheap labor.
                -- Joseph Stalin (1879-1953)
%%
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and
at whom it is aimed.
                -- Joseph Stalin (1879-1953)
%%
A single death is a tragedy.  A million deaths is a statistic.
                -- Joseph Stalin (1879-1953)
%%
The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.  The
granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic, and the
pustules of pellagra swelled on their side.  The great companies did not know
that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
                -- John Steinbeck (1902-?)
                "The Grapes of Wrath"
%%
Illegitimati non carborundum.
                -- Joseph W. Stilwell (1883-1946)
%%
When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that
the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
                -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
%%
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one
another.
                -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
%%
It is a maxim among lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally
be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the
decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of
mankind.  These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to
justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of directing
accordingly.
                -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
                "Gulliver's Travels"
%%
The business of the New York journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie
outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell
his race and his country for his daily bread.
                -- John Swinton (1830-1901)
%%
"Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appelant."

(They make a desert and call it peace.)
                -- Tacitus (55?-120?)

"It was necessary to destroy the village in order to save it."
                -- U. S. Army Commander, Vietnam.
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Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
                -- Tacitus (55?-120?)
%%
Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act.
                -- The Talmud (Sabbath, 54 b.)
%%
Power buries those who wield it.
                -- The Talmud (Yoma, 86 b.)
%%
We presume none sins unless he stands to profit by it.
                -- The Talmud (Baba Metzia, 5 b.)
%%
He was bought and sold and treated as an ordinary article of merchandise
whenever a profit could be made by it.  This opinion was at that time fixed
and universal in the civilized portion of the white race.
                -- Roger B. Taney (1777-1864)
                [Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857]
%%
"Certum est quia impossibile est."

(It is certain, because it is impossible.)
                -- Tertullian (180?-230?)
%%
A woman's appearance depends upon two things:  the clothes she wears and the
time she gives to her toilet... Against the first we bring the charge of
ostentation, against the second of harlotry.
                -- Tertullian (180?-230?)
%%
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just
man is also a prison.
                -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
%%
Things do not change; we change.
                -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
%%
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes
reactionary.
                -- Josef Broz Tito (1892-1980)
%%
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real
freedom of discussion as in America.
                -- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
%%
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side?  And hain't that a big enough
majority in any town?
                -- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
                "Huckleberry Finn"
%%
Democracy: A government of the masses.  Authority derived through mass meeting
or any other form of direct expression.  Results in mobocracy.  Attitude
toward property is communistic... negating property rights.  Attitude toward
law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it is based upon
deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint
or regard to consequences.  Result is demagogism, license, agitation,
discontent, anarchy.
                -- U. S. Army Training Manual
                No. 2000-25 (1928-1932), since withdrawn.
%%
Fascism is not the easist thing to identify and analyze; nor once in power, is
it easy to destroy... Points to stress are:

(1) Fascism is more apt to come to power in time of economic crisis;

(2) Fascism inevitably leads to war;

(3) it can come in any country;

(4) we can best combat it by making our democracy work.

                -- U. S. Army (1945)
%%
Fascism is governmemt by the few and for the few.  The objective is seizure
and control of the economic, political, social and cultural life of the state.
                -- U. S. Army (1945)
%%
The United States also has its native Fascists who say that they are "100
percent American"...
                -- U. S. Army (1945)
%%
An American Fascist seeking power would not proclaim that he is a fascist.
Fascism always camoulfages its plans and purposes. ... Any fascist attempt
made to gain power in America would not use the exact Hitler pattern.  It
would work under the guise of "super-patriotism" and "super-Americanism".
Fascist leaders are neither stupid nor naive.  They know that they must hand
out a line that "sells".  Huey Long is said to have remarked that if Fascism
came to America it would be on a program of "Americanism".
                -- U. S. Army (1945)
%%
In conformity with the interests of the working people, and in order to
strengthen the socialist system, the citizens of the U.S.S.R. are guaranteed
by law:

(a) Freedom of Speech;

(b) Freedom of the Press;

(c) Freedom of assembly, including the holding of mass meetings.

(d) Freedom of street processions and demonstrations.

                -- Constitution of the U.S.S.R.

"... upon the single condition that they be utilized in accord with the
interests of the toilers and to the end of strengthening the socialist social
order."
                -- Andrei Vishinsky (1883-?)
%%
When I want to buy up any politicians I always find the anti-monopolists
the most purchasable.  They don't come so high.
                -- William H. Vanderbilt (1821-1885)
%%
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they
kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
                -- Voltaire (1694-1778)
%%
Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not every one
that sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth.
                -- Richard Whately (1787-1863)
%%
This new development [automation] has unbounded possibilities for good and for
evil.
                -- Norbert Weiner (1894-1964)
%%
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the
people.
                -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
%%
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
                -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
%%
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
                -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
%%
There is no sin except stupidity.
                -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
%%
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
books are well written, or badly written, That is all.
                -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
%%
Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.  Conscience
makes egotists of us all.
                -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
%%
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
                -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
%%
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own
shame.
                -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
%%
The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely
nothing.
                -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
%%
A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
                -- Wendell L. Wilkie (1892-1944)
%%
  You cannot hope to bribe or twist
    Thank God! the British journalist.
  But, seeing what the man will do
    Unbribed, there's no occasion to.
                -- Humbert Wolfe (1885-1940)
%%
Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.
                -- Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639)
%%
Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.
                -- Israel Zangwill (1884-1926)
%%
It seems that somewhere in the legendary past of louse history, an offspring
of a free living form, not unlike our book louse, found that life could be
infinitely simplified, if instead of having to grub for food in straw [or]
under tree bark, ... it could attach itself to some food-supplying host
and sit tight.

The louse, by adapting itself to parasitism, has attained the ideal of
bourgeois civilization, though its methods of getting food, shelter, and
clothing are more direct than those of business and banking, and its source of
nourishment is not its own species.
                -- Hans Zinsser (1878-1940)
%%
The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
                -- Emile Zola (1840-1902)
                "J'Accuse!"
%%
      Recursion in everyday life:

    Inscription on a shampoo bottle:

               Lather
               Rinse
               Repeat
                -- Seen on an MIT computer's login message
%%
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we
are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
                -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)
%%
Someone who had begun to read geometry with Euclid, when he had learned the
first propostion, asked Euclid, "But what shall I get by learning these
things?"  whereupon Euclid called his slave and said "Give him three-pence
since he must make gain out of what he knows.
                -- Johannes Stobaeus (5th C. A.D.)
%%
There still remain three studies suitable for free man.  Arithmetic is one
of them.
                -- Plato (427?-347? B.C.)
%%
The power of dealing with numbers is a kind of "detached lever" arrangement
which may be put into a mighty poor watch.  I suppose it is about
as common as the power of moving ears voluntarily, which is a moderately
rare endowment.
                -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
%%
"Multiply in your head" (ordered the compassionate Dr. Adams)
"365,365,365,365,365,365 by 365,365,365,365,365,365.  He [ten-year-old
Truman Henry Safford] flew around the room like a top, pulled his
pantaloons over the tops of his boots, bit his hands, rolled his eyes in
their sockets, sometimes smiling and talking, and then seeming to be in an
agony, until, in not more than one minute, said he,
133,491,850,208,566,925,016,658,299,941,583,255!" An electronic computer
might do the job a little faster but it wouldn't be as much fun to watch.
            -- James R. Newman (The World of Mathematics)
%%
Scienta sine arte nihil est: ars sine scientia nihil est.
                -- Author Unknown
%%
I do hate sums.  There is no greater mistake than to call arithmetic
an exact science.  There are permutations and aberrations discernible
to minds entirely nobile like mine;  subtle variations which ordinary
accountants fail to discover; hidden laws of number which it requires
a mind like mine to perceive.  For instance, if you add a sum from the
bottom up, and then again from the top down, the result is always
different.
                -- Mrs. La Touche (19th cent.)
%%
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen:  whatever you say to them they
translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something
entirely different.
                -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
%%
I am not for imposing any sense on your words: you are at liberty to explain
them as you please.  Only, I beseech you, make me understand something by
them.
                -- Bishop Berkeley
%%
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though,
perhaps, sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression,
yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would
captivate or disturb them.
                -- John Locke (1632-1704)
%%
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible,
whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
            -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (The Sign of Four)
%%
Mark all Mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences,
how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with other, how
unapt to serve the world.
                -- Roger Ascham (ca. 1550)
%%
I believe that in about fifty years' time it will be possible to
programme computers, with a storage capacity of about 1,000,000,000
[bits], to make them play the imitation game so well that an average
interrogator will not have more than 70 percent chance of making
the right identification after five minutes of questioning.
                -- Alan M. Turing (?-1954)

[In the imitation game, an person questions two entities
and must decide which is human and which is a machine
programmed to act human.]
%%
Not until a machine can write a sonnet or compose a concerto
because of thoughts and emotions felt, and not by the chance fall
of symbols, could we agree that machine equals brain -- that is, not
only write it but know that it had written it.  No mechanism could
feel (and not merely artificially signal, an easy contrivance) pleasure at
its successes, grief when its valves fuse, be warmed by flattery, be made
miserable by its mistakes, be charmed by sex, be angry or depressed when it
cannot get what it wants.
                -- C. Jefferson (quoted by A. M. Turing)
%%
Men have become tools of their tools.
                -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
%%
  There once was a man who said, "Damn!
  It is borne in upon me I am
    An engine that moves
    In predestinate grooves,
  I'm not even a bus I'm a tram."
                -- Maurice Evan Hare (1905)
%%
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all
purely intellectual fields.  But which are the best ones to start
with?  Many people think that a very abstract activity,
like the playing of chess, would be best.  It can also be maintained
that it is best to provide the machine with the best sense organs
that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English.
                -- Alan M. Turing (?-1954)
%%
Inevitable advantage of man over the machine is illustrated
in this drawing.  At top human player loses to machine.  In center
nettled human player revises machine's instructions.  At bottom
human player wins.
            -- From a cartoon in the Saturday Evening Post
                quoted by Claude E. Shannon
                "A Chess Playing Machine"
%%
... a science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate
the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly
promotes the destruction of human life.
                -- G. H. Hardy
%%
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists
of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
                -- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
%%
It has been said [by Anatole France], "it is not by amusing oneself that
one learns," and, in reply: "it is <<only>> by amusing oneself that one
can learn."
            -- Edward Kasner and James R. Newman
%%
  Here lies the son; here lies the mother;
  Here lies the daughter; here lies the father;
  Here lies the sister; here lies the brother;
  Here lie the wife and the husband.
  Still there are only three people here.
                -- Verse, found on an old gravestone
                at Alencourt, near Paris;  quoted in
                "The World of Mathematics"
%%
If P is any prime, a prime greater then P can always be found.
construct P!+1.  This number, obviously greater than P, is not divisible
by P or any number less than P.  There are only two alternatives:
(1) It is not divisible at all; (2) It is divisible by a prime lying
betewen P and P!+1.  But both of these alternatives prove the existence
of a prime greater than P. Q.E.D.
                -- Euclid
%%
Opera -- it's no more unreal than the people who are watching it.
                -- Heard on Public Radio
%%
Simplified Swedish Tax Form:

    How much did you earn?

    How much do you have left?

    Send it in.

                -- Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson
%%
  Once I built a railroad,
  Made it run,
  Made it run right on time.
  Once I built a railroad,
  Now it's done,
  Brother can you spare a dime.
                -- Hap Arnold (?-1981)
%%
It is better to lead the revolution than to be caught by it.
%%
For who was eligible to [the prison] "La Ferte'"?  Anyone whom the
police could find in the lovely country of France (a) who was not guilty
of treason, (b) who could not prove that he was not guilty of treason.
By treason I refer to any little annoying habits of independent thought
which <<en temps de guerre>> are put in a hole and covered over,
with the somewhat naive idea that from their cadavers violets will grow
whereof the perfune will delight all good men and true and make such worthy
citizens forget their sorrows.
                -- E. E. Cummings (1894-1963)
%%
We kill you and you kill us and Allah is the greatest.
    -- Ayatollah Khomeini (quoted Int. Herald Trib. Jul 1, 1981)
%%
Movies are like sex:  when they're good, they're fantastic and when
they're bad, they're also fantastic.
                -- Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947)
%%
The desire to impose upon the disorder of nature some orderly pattern
or arrangement makes men into poets, painters and gardeners;  it also
makes them prey  to the illusion that a highly organized state will be
civilized and preferable to a disorganized and muddled one.
                -- Len Deighton (1929-)
%%
Democracy, with its noise, with temptations of posts and prebends,
converts the professor into an orator, the poet into a deputy,
squandering the intellectual energies of a people.
            -- Quoted by Felipe Torroba Bernaldo de Quiros
%%
Popular politics means noise, and what intelligence needs is calm.
At times, through a painful imposition of Providence, Dante is in exile,
Cervantes in prison; Beethoven is deaf and Milton is blind.

It was in the golden solitude of a farm in the outskirts of Rome that
Horace could write his "Odes" and Virgil his "Aeneid," never in a
Parlimentary seat.
                -- Felipe Torroba Bernaldo de Quiros
%%
Scorpios do not believe in astrology.
                -- Ngaire Woods
%%
Sacred knowledge in the hands of fools destroys.
                -- The Upanishads
%%
Never apologize, never explain.
                -- Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893)

(Of whom it was sait that what he didn't know wasn't knowledge.)
%%
There are perhaps only three certain ways to make money betting: as
a bookmaker, as a tipster or with certain superior information.  The
first needs no explanation, and the smart tipster has only satisfied
customers -- he returns his fee when his tip is proved wrong.
                -- Computer Bulletin, Sept. 1980
%%
  "Those who speak know nothing;
  Those who know are silent"
  These words, I am told,
  Were spoken by Lao-tzu.
                -- P Chu-i (772-846)

How is it then, the poem ends, that one who knew, wrote so much?
%%
  Survival Pack, aircraft, FT107/35, All Purpose, Strategic Air Command:
    1 45 caliber automatic, 2 boxes ammunition.
    4 days concentrated emergency rations.
    1 drug issue containing:  antibiotics, morphine,
      vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizing pills.
    1 miniature combination Russian phrase book and bible.
  100 dollars in Rubles,
  100 dollars in gold,
    9 packs of chewing gum,
    1 issue of prophylactics,
    3 lipsticks,
    3 pair of nylon stockings.
            -- From Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned
               to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
%%
Science fiction is to the totalitarian state what Aesop's fables were to
the institution of slavery in the sixth century B.C.  It is, of course,
subversive.  By taking ideas too seriously, it ridicules people.  But it
depends, for its subversive power, on people who are smart enough to be
afraid of laughter.  Modern history, especially as it expresses itself
in the totalitarian hockey puck, has an excess of almost everything
except a genuine appreciation of the ludicrous.
            -- John Leonard, New York Times (1982)
%%
Sci-fi is a perversion practiced by two consenting adults, one
non-consenting non-adult, and a spayed gerbil, taking place in a
bathroom using a walnut.
            -- Jerry E. Pournelle
%%