“Under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs or worked by them.”
David Ben-Gurion (1886–1973) Israeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel
Written statement (1920), as quoted in .
Context: Under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs or worked by them. Only if a fellah leaves his place of settlement, should we offer to buy his land, at an appropriate price.
“Under no circumstances would we agree to any free-trade deal that put the NHS on the table.”
Boris Johnson (1964) British politician, historian and journalist
Boris Johnson: Premiership will be the start of a golden age https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49107417 BBC News (25 July 2019) <br class="br">2010s, 2019
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
F 87
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
Stephen King book Apt Pupil
Different Seasons (1982), Apt Pupil
Context: But maybe there is something about what the Germans did that exercises a deadly fascination over us - something that opens the catacombs of the imagination. Maybe part of our dread and horror comes from a secret knowledge that under the right - or wrong - set of circumstances, we ourselves would be willing to build such places and staff them. Black serendipity. Maybe we know that under the right set of circumstances the things that live in the catacombs would be glad to crawl out.
“There are circumstances under which the anomalous should be courted. Ignorance is one of them.”
Roger Zelazny book Today We Choose Faces
Part 2, Chapter 7 (p. 123)
Today We Choose Faces (1973)
Walter Keane (1915–2000) American plagiarist
Referring to himself in the third person, page 39. "Them" refers to Rembrandt, El Greco, and Michelangelo.
1965, Cited by Jane Howard
Abby Stein (1991) Trans activist, speaker, and educator
Source: Interview with Friendly Atheist, December 7, 2015 http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2015/12/07/a-descendant-of-the-founder-of-hasidic-judaism-just-came-out-as-an-atheist-trans-woman/.
