QOTD category archive

W. E. B. DuBois:

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

Rosa Luxembourg:

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

Mae West, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Experience is by far the best teacher. You know, ever since I was a little girl I knew that if you look both ways when you cross the street, you’ll see a lot more than traffic.

Noam Chomsky:

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

John Irving, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can’t even remember having met you.

Ben Hecht, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

Ralph Nader (who, for all he has made himself into a joke, used to get some things right), from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.

Douglas Horton:

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me.

H. G. Wells:

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Harry Bridges:

Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can be mustered by those who now get what they produce.

Lech Walesa:

This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions – formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers’ rights and dignity.

Emma Goldman:

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.

Franklin Roosevelt:

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Samuel Johnson:

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Toni Morrison,from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Nothing like other folks’ sin for distraction.

Abraham Lincoln:

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Henry Brooks Adams, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

John Barrymore,from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar, and use it up in two weeks.

Dante Alighieri:

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.