Mrs. Read

“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

“Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.”
― Edward Hallett Carr, What Is History?

“The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.”
― Matthew Scully, Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain