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"Fascism is capitalism plus murder."

Upton Sinclair
(09/20/1878 – 11/25/1968)
US writer

"This Englishwoman is so refined
she has no bosom and no behind."

Stevie Smith
(09/20/1902 – 03/07/1971)
English writer ("Novel on Yellow Paper")

"I haven't touched a drop of alcohol since the invention of the funnel."

Malachy McCourt
(09/20/1931 – )
Irish-American actor, writer
(brother of Frank McCourt)

"For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most."

Annie Besant
(10/01/1847 – 09/20/1933)
English social reformer

"People never know what's going on while it's happening. You think, during the Renaissance, people called it 'The Renaissance'?"

Anne Meara
(09/20/1929 – 05/23/2015)
US comic actor ("The Daytrippers")
(was married to Jerry Stiller, mother with him of Ben Stiller)

"Everything you see I owe to spaghetti."

Sophia Loren
(09/20/1934 – )
Italian actor

"Politics is very much like taxes—everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him."

Fiorello La Guardia
(12/11/1882 – 09/20/1947)
US mayor (NYC)

"I do not think of a symphony only as music in this or that number of bars, but rather as an expression of a spiritual creed, a phase in one's inner life."

Jean Sibelius
(12/08/1865 – 09/20/1957)
Finnish composer

"What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition."

Asia Argento
(09/20/1975 – )
Italian actor
(daughter of Dario Argento)

"A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems."

Paul Erdos
(03/26/1913 – 09/20/1996)
Hungarian mathematician (Erdos Number)

"None of my 'clients'—not Eichmann, not Stangl, not Mengele, and not even Hitler or Stalin—was born a criminal. Somebody had to teach them to hate: maybe the society, maybe the politics, maybe just a Jewish prostitute."

Simon Wiesenthal
(12/31/1908 – 09/20/2005)
Ukrainian Nazi-hunter

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