“An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.”

― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

“The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys.”

― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Beautiful women never have time. They are always so occupied in being jealous of other people's husbands.”

― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

“The nineteenth-century liberal regarded an extension of freedom as the most effective way to promote welfare and equality; the twentieth-century liberal regards welfare and equality as either prerequisites of or alternatives to freedom.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“Those who trust us educate us.”

― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

“I don't know, I feel like this isn't the real world. The people, the scene: they just don't seem real to me.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it ’cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he’s poor in hisself, there ain’t no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an’ maybe he’s disappointed that...”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit...”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees—just as things grow in fast movies—I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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