They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.

Thomas Carlyle

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

Thomas Hobbes

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

Henry David Thoreau

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Willia

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.

Corrie Ten Boom

What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail.

Robert H. Schuller

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

Claudius

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

William Cobbett

This was a vagrant of sixty-five, who was going to prison for playing the flute; or, in other words, for begging in the streets, and doing noting for his livelihood. In the next cell, was another man, who was going to the same prison for hawking tin saucepans without a licence; thereby doing something for his living, in defiance of the Stamp-office.

Charles Dickens

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.

Shirley Manson

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Galeazzo Ciano