“Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”
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Austrian writer 1931–1989Related quotes

“People struggle to live, not to commit suicide”
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“I don't know how people who engage in that don't commit suicide”
commenting on people "talking the economy down", just before the crash. Speech at Irish Congress of Trade Unions conference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfjGSfuSQpA 2007-07-3.

Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973), p. 30

Alex Jones on Piers Morgan Tonight, CNN, 7 January 2013.
2013


“A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.”
"The Poets' Corner III," The Pall Mall Gazette http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/1307/ (May 30, 1887)

“Science … commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”
"The Darwin Memorial" (1885) http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE2/DarM.html
1880s