“People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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“Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“It must require bravery to be honest all the time.”

― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

“Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you—it's a wall that an active you runs up against.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige that is in them of unselfishness and generosity, and so effectively that they shine resplendent in the eyes of all beholders.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“In place of the King’s arbitrary despotism they proposed, not the withering anarchy of feudal separatism, but a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

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