“I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“I protested: "But all this is childish. Is there a war on here, or isn't there?"
"The Royal Welch don't recognize it socially," he answered.”
Source: Goodbye to All That (1929), Ch.14
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Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) German artist
Diary entry (21 February 1944).
The Diary and Letters of Käthe Kollwitz (1955)
Saeed Jones (1985) American poet
On being Black and gay in the United States in “'We're All Struggling': Writer Saeed Jones Reflects On Identity And Acceptance” https://www.npr.org/2019/11/06/776747102/we-re-all-struggling-writer-saeed-jones-reflects-on-identity-and-acceptance in NPR (2019 Nov 6)
“Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Source: Being Peace
Kenneth N. Waltz book Man, the State, and War
Source: Man, the State, and War (1959), Chapter IV, The Second Image, p. 98
Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) United States Baptist theologian
Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Ch.1 The Historical Roots of Christianity the Hebrew Prophets, p. 12-13
Context: There is no question on which side the sympathy of the prophets was enlisted. Their protest against injustice and oppression, to the neglect of all other social evils, is almost monotonous.
“I protest that no one admires Cicero more than I do. He enriches all that he touches.”
François Fénelon (1651–1715) Catholic bishop
Je proteste que personne n'admire Cicéron plus que je fais: il embellit tout ce qu’il touche.
Lettre sur les Occupations de l'Académie Française, sect. 4, cited from Œuvres de Fénelon (Paris: Lefèvre, 1835) vol. 3, p. 227; translation from Paul Bertie Bull Preaching and Sermon Construction (New York: Macmillan, 1922) p. 256. (1714)
Cf. Dr. Johnson's epitaph for Oliver Goldsmith: "…qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit, nullum quod tetigit non ornavit," ("…who left no species of writing untouched by his pen, and touched none that he did not adorn").
Marvin Gaye (1939–1984) American singer-songwriter and musician
What's Going On.
Song lyrics, What's Going On (1971)
Variant: Mother, mother
There's too many of you crying.
Brother, brother, brother
There's far too many of you dying.
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today.