If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

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Anon.

The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Fidel Castro

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

Pablo Picasso

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be!

Cesare Pavese

I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into.

Slash

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Oscar Wilde

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants -- more than anything else -- to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are -- and have always been.

Anita Loos

A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man, because she is an instrument of pleasure.

Victor Hugo

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

Patricia Highsmith

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.

Michael Pollan

In the long term, Germany didn't need a finance minister who was absent during important negotiations in the European Council. But the chancellor strongly encouraged me to stay. And everything did work out for the best in the end.

Wolfgang Schauble