The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

?I will abide by my reason, because with all its weakness there is some chance of my getting at truth through it. We should therefore follow reasons, and also sympathise with those who do not come to any sort of belief, following reason.

Swami Vivekananda

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science Fiction... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is fables agreed upon.

Voltaire

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

E. M. Cioran

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Gustave Flaubert, Trans. by Will

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.

Ninon De L'Enclos

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.

H. G. Bohn

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care that's what poetry is supposed to do.

Diane Wakoski

Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy

Ambrose Bierce

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

David Ogilvy

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

Ulrich Beck

Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.

Mary Cassatt