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“My philosophy
like colour TV
is all there
in black and white”
Monty Python

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 A developed city is not a place where the poor have cars, it's where even the rich use public transportation. 
Una ciudad avanzada no es en la que los pobres pueden moverse en carro, sino una en la que incluso los ricos utilizan el transporte público.
Enrique Peñalosa (1954- )
 A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. 
Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
 A hungry man is an angry man. 
James Howell (c 1594-1666)
 Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers. 
Anonymous
 Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. 
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
 Freedom is not free. 
Anonymous
 Gossip is the new pornography. 
Woody Allen (1935- )
 I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear. 
E.B. White (1899-1985)
 I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. 
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
 In a mature society, “civil servant” is semantically equal to “civil master”. 
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)
 Man is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests. 
Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)
 One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. 
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
 Outer space is no place for a person of breeding. 
Violet Bonham-Carter (1887-1969)
 The greatest leveler is politeness; it removes all class distinctions. 
Die größte Gleichmacherin ist die Höflichkeit, durch sie werden alle Standesunterschiede aufgehoben.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916)
 The secret of the demagogue is to appear as dumb as his audience so that these people can believe themselves as smart as he. 
Karl Kraus (1874-1936)
 The upper crust is just a lot of crumbs sticking together. 
Anonymous
 There are more of them than us. 
Herb Caen (1916-1997)
 To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois. 
Jules Renard (1864-1910)
 Unhappy is the land that needs a hero. 
Unglücklich das Land, das Helden nötig hat.
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
 We have met the enemy, and he is us. 
Anonymous
 We live in an age where pizza gets to your home before the police. 
Anonymous
 Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. 
Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
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