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If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

Mary Astell

Some Reflections Upon Marriage

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Astell, Mary. Reflections Upon Marriage. London: W. Wilkin, 1706.

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Astell, Mary. "Some Reflections on Marriage." Astell: Political Writings. Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Jesus

Matthew 27:46

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 27:46).

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Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?

Jeremiah 13:23

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Jeremiah 13:23).

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Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Apostle Paul

2nd Corinthians 6:14

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (2nd Corinthians 6:14).

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Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice

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Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. c. 1598, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Merchant of Venice." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 1.

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What truly is logic? Who decides reason? My quest has taken me to the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional, and back. I have made the most important discovery of my career—the most important discovery of my life. It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found. I am only here tonight because of you. You are the reason I am. You are all my reasons. Thank you.

A Beautiful Mind

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A Beautiful Mind. Directed by Ron Howard, Universal Pictures/DreamWorks Pictures/Imagine Entertainment, 2001.

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Et tu, Brutè?

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar

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Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, 1599, Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Julius Caesar." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 1.

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Why is it that if a man kills another man in battle, it's called heroic, yet if he kills a man in the heat of passion, it's called murder?

Wayne's World

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Wayne's World. Directed by Penelope Spheeris, Paramount Pictures, 1992.

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Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?

Robert Burton

The Anatomy of Melancholy

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Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy. Oxford: Henry Cripps, 1621, pt. 1.

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Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy, edited by Holbrook Jackson. New York Review Books, 2001, pt. 1.

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If a man die, shall he live again?

Job

Job 14:14

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Job 14:14).

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How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

John Kerry

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Kerry, John. Statement to Senate Foreign Relations Committee. United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations meeting. 22 Apr. 1971, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

Jesus

Matthew 6:27

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The Holy Bible, New International Version. International Bible Society, 1978. (Matthew 6:27).

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How comes it
That thou art then estranged from thyself?

William Shakespeare

The Comedy of Errors

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Shakespeare, William. The Comedy of Errors. 1594, Gray's Inn Hall, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Comedy of Errors." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 2.

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What kind of a man are you? You have sat here and voted "guilty" with everyone else because there are some baseball tickets burning a hole in your pocket?

12 Angry Men

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12 Angry Men. Directed by Sidney Lumet, Orion-Nova Productions and Orion-Nova Pictures, 1957.

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What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wilderness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Hopkins, Gerard Manley. "Inversnaid." Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Humphrey Milford, 1918, I. 13.

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Hopkins, Gerard Manley. "Inversnaid." Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works, edited by Catherine Phillips. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?

Socrates

Quoted in Phaedo, by Plato

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Socrates. Quoted in Φαίδων [Phaedo], written by Plato. c. 360 BC.

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Socrates. Quoted in "Phaedo." Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, written by Plato, translated by G. M. A. Grube and John M. Cooper. Hackett Publishing, 2002.

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The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Jeremiah 17:9

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Jeremiah 17:9).

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Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.

God

Jeremiah 23:24

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Jeremiah 23:24).

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If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?

Pope Francis

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Pope Francis. "On Gay Priests, Pope Francis Asks, 'Who Am I to Judge?" The New York Times, July 2013. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/world/europe/pope-francis-gay-priests.html