The more religious a country is, the more crimes are committed in it.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1817
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You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
—Leon TrotskyEveryone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art—that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944Don’t hit a man at all if you can avoid it, but if you have to hit him, knock him out.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1916We and the dead ride quick at night.
—Gottfried August Bürger, 1773It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverbMy ideas are clear. My orders are precise. Within five years, Rome must appear marvelous to all the people of the world—vast, orderly, powerful, as in the time of the empire of Augustus.
—Benito Mussolini, 1929Under the wide and starry sky, / Dig the grave and let me lie.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
—Edmund Burke, 1765Avoid the talk of men. For talk is mischievous, light, and easily raised, but hard to bear and difficult to be rid of. Talk never wholly dies away when many people voice her: even talk is in some ways divine.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCI say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
—H. Rap Brown, 1967