Patriotism is the vice of nations.
-- Oscar Wilde
Certainly, it is already no longer possible, in my view, to call oneself an anarchist without adding a qualifying adjective to distinguish oneself from lifestyle anarchists.
-- Murray Bookchin
Talkers are no good doers.
-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
-- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"
You will become rich and famous unless you don't.
Your heart is pure, and your mind clear, and your soul devout.
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then?
-- Henry David Thoreau
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of
Congress. But I repeat myself.
-- Mark Twain
I think it can be clearly proven that the mental constitution of woman, like that of man, has never failed to rise where restrictions upon equal freedom have been torn down.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
Q: What lies on the bottom of the ocean and twitches?
A: A nervous wreck.