Quotes of famous people

„Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.“

—  Idi Amin third president of Uganda 1925 - 2003

Quoted in The Evil 100 (2004) by Martin Gilman Wolcott, p. 78.
Attributed

„What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favorite perversion.“

—  Julian Barnes English writer 1946

„Fortune favours the brave.“

—  Terence, Phormio

Variant translation: Fortune assists the brave.
Act I, scene 4, line 25 (203).
Cf. Virgil, Aeneid, Book X, line 284: "Audentes fortuna iuvat."
Phormio
Original: (la) Fortis fortuna adiuvat.

„The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.“

—  Martin Heidegger German philosopher 1889 - 1976

Das Bedenklichste in unserer bedenklichen Zeit ist, dass wir noch nicht denken.
What is Called Thinking? [Was heisst Denken?] (1951–1952), as translated by Fred D. Wieck and J. Glenn Gray (1968)

„The Lord is I light an' salvation
so I won't heed to temptation
….. I know they hate us but Jah love us so
The more they fight we get stronger“

—  Anthony B Jamaican deejay and singer 1976

In time of trouble'
Song lyrics, Life over Death (2008)

„Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man“

—  Jean Jacques Rousseau Genevan philosopher 1712 - 1778

„We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.“

—  Andy Goldsworthy British sculptor and photographer 1956

„By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.“

—  Arthur Rimbaud French Decadent and Symbolist poet 1854 - 1891

Variant: Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
Source: Selected Poems and Letters

„The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.“

—  Walter Elliot American priest 1842 - 1928

„I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.“

—  Rosa Parks African-American civil rights activist 1913 - 2005

„There is but one true kirk and that is the kirk of rome.“

—  Mary, Queen of Scots Scottish monarch and queen consort of France 1542 - 1587

„Dear Jesus… how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.“

—  Corrie ten Boom, book The Hiding Place

Source: The Hiding Place

„Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.“

—  Corrie ten Boom Dutch resistance hero and writer 1892 - 1983

„When I try, I fail.
When I trust,
He succeeds.“

—  Corrie ten Boom Dutch resistance hero and writer 1892 - 1983

„Star of resplendent front! Thy glorious eye
Shines on me still from out yon clouded sky.“

—  Sarah Helen Whitman United States poet 1803 - 1878

Arcturus (To Edgar Allan Poe).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

„Living simply makes loving simple.“

—  Bell Hooks American author, feminist, and social activist 1952

„Even if I now saw you only once, I would long for you through worlds, worlds, worlds.“

—  Izumi Shikibu Japanese poet 976 - 1033

Source: The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

„Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.“

—  William Golding, book Lord of the Flies

Variant: What I mean is... maybe it's only us...
Source: Lord of the Flies

„We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?“

—  William Golding, book Lord of the Flies

Source: Lord of the Flies