The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
“But in the Middle Ages people were convinced there were witches. They looked for them and they certainly found them.”
BBC News, "Blix criticises UK's Iraq dossier", September 18, 2003 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3118462.stm
referring to the British and American governments' insistence that there are WMD in Iraq after Blix had already concluded and reported there was nothing to be found
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
Context: There were only four witches in all the Land of Oz, and two of them, those who live in the North and the South, are good witches. I know this is true, for I am one of them myself, and cannot be mistaken. Those who dwelt in the East and the West were, indeed, wicked witches; but now that you have killed one of them, there is but one Wicked Witch in all the Land of Oz — the one who lives in the West.
Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
As translated in The Portable Nietzsche (1954) by Walter Kaufmann, p. 96
“People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.”
Antonin Scalia
(1936–2016) former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Speech at the University of Chicago Law School http://maroon.uchicago.edu/news/articles/2003/05/09/justice_scalia_speak.php (6 May 2003).
2000s
“These people were looking at me for help and there was no way I could turn my back on them”
Hugh Thompson, Jr.
(1943–2006) United States helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War
In a 1998 interview with AP. http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-22/1136568553158920.xml&storylist=louisiana
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“The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.”
Harold Innis
(1894–1952) Canadian professor of political economy
Industrialism and Cultural Values p. 139.
The Bias of Communication (1951)
Brian W. Aldiss
(1925–2017) British science fiction author
Let's Be Frank (1957)
Context: These people, scattered all over the country, a few of them on the continent, were much like normal people. To outsiders, their relationship was not apparent; they certainly never revealed it; they never met. They became traders, captains of ships that traded with the Indies, soldiers, parliamentarians, agriculturists; some plunged into, some avoided, the constitutional struggles that dogged most of the seventeenth century. But they were all — male or female — Franks. They had the inexpressible benefit of their progenitor's one hundred and seventy-odd years' experience, and not only of his, but of all the other Franks. It was small wonder that, with few exceptions, whatever they did they prospered.
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne
(1911–1983) British lecturer, novelist, historian, poet and biographer
A Vision of the Uncorrupted Society, p. 292 ( See also: Social contract..)
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)