I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.

Clara Zetkin

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

Christopher Hitchens

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lewis E. Lawes

The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.

Lucy Powell

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

Henry Fielding

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Chinese Proverb

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

Virginia Woolf

I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.

Catherine the Great

Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates.

Thomas Mann

In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.

Christopher Hitchens

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

Robert Benchley