All Quotes
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Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.Blackfoot chief, (c. 1880)
The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.Kenneth Patchen
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.Joseph Addison
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.Albert Camus
What once were vices are manners now.Seneca
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.Margaret Mead
Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.Aldo Leopold
Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.Richard Benner
I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.Evelyn Waugh
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw