John Ruskin book Modern Painters
Volume III, part IV, chapter XII (1856).
Modern Painters (1843-1860)
From "George H. Earle, Jr., Doctor to Ailing Corporations". Munsey's Magazine (February 1910:683-691)
John Ruskin book Modern Painters
Volume III, part IV, chapter XII (1856).
Modern Painters (1843-1860)
“We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Address in Baltimore, Maryland http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=88871 (18 April 1864) <br class="br">1860s <br class="br">Context: The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name — liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names — liberty and tyranny.
“Just because we do not speak Hindi does not mean we are not Indians.”
Tathagata Satpathy (1956) Indian politician
On the proposal that Hindi be made the national language, as quoted " Is 'secularism' really being misused? http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/is-secularism-really-being-misused-115112700107_1.html" Business Standard (27 November 2015)
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister
1930s, Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (1932)
John Boehner (1949) Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
"World Weighs In to Condemn Terry Jones' Planned Quran-Burning" http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/world-weighs-in-condemn-terry-jones-planned-quran-burning, "Sunshine Times", 2010-8-09 <br class="br">2010s, 2010
“Just because so many things are in conflict does not mean that we ourselves should be divided.”
Sophie Scholl (1921–1943) White Rose member
As quoted in Seeking Peace : Notes and Conversations Along the Way (1998) by Johann Christoph Arnold, p. 155
Context: Just because so many things are in conflict does not mean that we ourselves should be divided. Yet time and time again one hears it said that since we have been put into a conflicting world, we have to adapt to it. Oddly, this completely unchristian idea is most often espoused by so-called Christians, of all people. How can we expect a righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone who will give himself up undividedly to a righteous cause?
Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer
Session 426, Page 25
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 9