Society and the World

Here richly, with ridiculous display,

For every time She shouted ‘Fire!’

ESTRAGON : Charming spot. Inspiring prospects. Let’s go.

One of the thieves was saved. (Pause) It’s a reasonable percentage.

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius! … You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible and I can shoot dice. That’s what I call a liberal education.

If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Printing, gunpowder, and the mariner’s needle [compass] … these three have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world.

Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.

Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.

I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

Nature cannot be ordered about, except by obeying her.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

God forbid that we should give out a dream of our own imagination for a pattern of the world.