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Privacy is not something that I’m merely entitled to, it’s an absolute prerequisite.
Marlon Brando1924–2004Said in 1960, quoted in Marlon Brando, Ch. 11 (1974, rev. 1989), by David Shipman.
If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.
Timothy Leary1920–1996Changing My Mind, Among Others (1982)
- Change
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
- Change
Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The American Notebooks (1835—1853), 1836
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe (1792)
- Change
- Nature
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The House of the Seven Gables (1851), Ch. XX: The Flower of Eden
- Change
- Happiness
The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.
Victor Hugo1802–1885“Les fleurs,” (ca. 1860—1865), from Oeuvres complètes (1909); published in English as The Memoirs of Victor Hugo, trans. John W. Harding (1899), Chapter VI: Love in Prison, part II
Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
- Envy
- Luck
What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The American Notebooks (1835—1853), 1836
The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal.
Michel Foucault1926–1984History of Sexuality (1976–1984), Vol. I, p. 59
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Russell Baker1925–2019“The Fact About Progress,” The New York Times (1970-02-24)
- Change
Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.
George Orwell1903–1950“As I Please,” Tribune (7 July 1944)
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
Edith Wharton1862–1937A Backward Glance (1934), “A First Word”
- Change
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdain — under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
William James1842–1910Memories and Studies (1911)
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech in the House of Commons, November 12, 1936 “Debate on the Address”
- Change
- Responsibility