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"It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people." – Simone Weil, 'Gravity and Grace' (1972).
"Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor." – William O. Douglas, dissenting, Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476 (1957).
"It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other." – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series, History (1841)
"All metaphors, at least such of them that are best chosen, are applied to the senses, especially the seeing, which of all senses is the most exquisite. Thus when we say, the tincture of politeness, the softness of good-breeding, the murmer of…
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