Darius I of Persia (-550–-486 BC) 3rd king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire (550–486 BC)
DB inscription http://www.avesta.org/op/op.htm#db1, COLUMN 4, 63. (4.61-7.)
Myśli nowoczesnego Polaka, 7th ed., 1953, p. 14.
Darius I of Persia (-550–-486 BC) 3rd king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire (550–486 BC)
DB inscription http://www.avesta.org/op/op.htm#db1, COLUMN 4, 63. (4.61-7.)
“You are neither right nor wrong because people agree with you.”
Benjamin Graham (1894–1976) American investor
As quoted by Warren Buffett, in an interview in Forbes magazine (1 November 1974)
“One luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
" Acquainted with the Night http://www.ketzle.com/frost/acquainted.htm" (1928) <br class="br">General sources <br class="br">Context: One luminary clock against the sky<br>Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.<br>I have been one acquainted with the night.
Muhammad Asad (1900–1992) Austro-Hungarian writer and academic
Source: This Law of Ours and Other Essays (1987), Chapter: Calling All Muslims, Radio Broadcast # 4, p 105
Dogen (1200–1253) Japanese Zen buddhist teacher
"Shoaku makusa : Not Doing Wrong Action" as translated by Anzan Hoshin roshi and Yasuda Joshu Dainen roshi (2007)
Kurt Schuschnigg (1897–1977) Chancellor of Austria
Source: The Brutal Takeover: The Austrian ex-Chancellor’s account of the Anschluss of Austria by Hitler, 1971, p. 209-210
“History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.”
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902) British politician and historian
Postscript of letter to Mandell Creighton (5 April 1887), puplished in Historical Essays and Studies, by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton (1907), edited by John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence, Appendix, p. 505 http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=2201&chapter=203934&layout=html&Itemid=27 <br class="br">Context: ADVICE TO PERSONS ABOUT TO WRITE HISTORY — DON’T<br>In the Moral Sciences Prejudice is Dishonesty.<br>A Historian has to fight against temptations special to his mode of life, temptations from Country, Class, Church, College, Party, Authority of talents, solicitation of friends.<br>The most respectable of these influences are the most dangerous.<br>The historian who neglects to root them out is exactly like a juror who votes according to his personal likes or dislikes.<br>In judging men and things Ethics go before Dogma, Politics or Nationality. The Ethics of History cannot be denominational.<br>Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote the delicacy, integrity, and authority of Conscience.<br>Put conscience above both system and success.<br>History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
“Strength grows from building other strength, not from trampling on weakness.”
Eric Flint (1947) American author
Frederick II of Prussia (1712–1786) king of Prussia
This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe.
Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), trans. Richard Aldington, letter 215 from Frederick to Voltaire (1776-03-19)