Quotations from literature

play by Samuel Beckett

political slogan that is the rallying cry of communism

Proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music

thumb|Front page cover of the newspaper ''L'Aurore for Thursday 13 January 1898, with the letter J'Accuse...!, written by Émile Zola about the [[Dreyfus affair. The headline reads I Accuse...! Letter to the President of the Republic''.]]

slogan (“Work sets you free”) on the entrance of Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps

statement and provocative poem attributed to pastor Martin Niemöller

example of Party logic presented in 1984

1936 book by Dale Carnegie

Christian hymn written by Sarah Fuller Flower Adams

poem by the English poet Rudyard Kipling

Karl Marx's description of religion: “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”

magical phrase in the story of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves"

term for World War I

"we do not & will not know" — maxim refering to the limits of scientific knowledge

popular adage communicating the idea that it is impossible to get something for nothing

poem by Walt Whitman on the death of Abraham Lincoln

Latin aphorism often claimed to mean organized "knowledge is power"

French phrase

series of children's puzzle books created by English illustrator Martin Handford

common joke or riddle

1804 poem by William Blake

sentence coined by Noam Chomsky to describe proper syntax with improper semantics

non-fiction work by E. F. Schumacher

editorial appearing in the September 21, 1897, edition of The (New York) Sun

Quote from Horace's Odes

concept coined by Engels that, with the realization of socialism, the state will become obsolete and disappear as the society will govern itself without coercive enforcement of the law

the idea that in nature, the only "law" is to do whatever is needed for survival

latin phrase

phrase used in communication theory

poem by Dylan Thomas

central claim of existentialism formulated by Sartre

thinking of the perfect reply too late

maxim of Anselm of Canterbury

11th-century Old Dutch text fragment

political slogan based on a poem by James Oppenheim

1784 song

the doctrine or belief that in the system of things all that happens, the undesirable no less than the desirable, is for the best

proverb found in Matthew 26:52

fictional character

fictional race from Gulliver's Travels

1970 novel by Judy Blume

reductio ad absurdum of angelology; idiom for wasting time debating pointless issues

aphorism due to Percy Bysshe Shelley

Iconic film quote

Phrase referring to historical incidents

play by Woody Allen

poem by William Wordsworth

religious proverb and proverbial call for self-help

Saying

phrase popular in the 1990s in the United States

aphorism

Imperative phraseme used to order someone to speak English.

Philosophical phrase

Nazi slogan that, due to the loss of German colonies (Treaty of Versailles), the Germans had become a people without Lebensraum

poem by Lewis Carroll

famous Middle Dutch song

verse from Dante's "Inferno"

poem by John Donne

Chinese proverb

phenomenon of an initial advantage not lasting