“People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.”
Richard Stallman (1953) American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
"Sayings" at Richard Stallman's personal site (c. 2001) http://www.stallman.org/sayings.html <br class="br">2000s
John Donne (1572–1631) English poet
IV. Mediscque Vocatur The physician is sent for
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
Clive Staples Lewis book The Problem of Pain
The Problem of Pain (1940)
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
No. 19
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
Loretta Chase (1949) American writer
Source: Silk Is for Seduction
“He loved his kind, but sought the love of few,
And valued old opinions more than new.”
Park Benjamin, Sr. (1809–1864) American journalist
Infatuation.
“Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kind, sunshiny old age.”
Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880) American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist
1840s, Letters from New York (1843) <br class="br">Source: Letters from New York http://www.bartleby.com/66/66/12266.html, vol. 1, letter 37
