Source: Tristes Tropiques (1955), Chapter 16 : Markets, p. 148
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Fragment, Notes for a Law Lecture (1 July 1850), cited in Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising his Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings, Vol. 2 (1894)
1850s
“I could only choose between being an outcast and being dishonest.”
Clarence Thomas (1948) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Page 133
2000s, (2008)
John Rawls book A Theory of Justice
Source: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter III, Section 28, pg. 171
Edward Sapir (1884–1939) American linguist and anthropologist
"American Indian Grammatical Categories", edited by Morris Swadesh in Word, 2 (1946)
Context: It would be naïve to imagine that any analysis of experience is dependent on pattern expressed in language. Any concept, whether or not it forms part of the system of grammatical categories, can be conveyed in any language. If a notion is lacking in a given series, it implies a different configuration and not a lack of expressive power.
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XVI : The Warning of Experience; Helen to Mrs. Maxwell
“Not all segregationists are lunatics, or even dishonest men.”
Walt Kelly (1913–1973) American cartoonist
Ten Everlovin' Blue-Eyed Years With Pogo (1959); an aside while recounting the 1954 shooting in the US Congress public-viewing gallery. Kelly noted that the shooters were not lunatic-fringe segregationists, then added the aside in a footnote.
Karl Popper (1902–1994) Austrian-British philosopher of science
Source: On Freedom (1958)
Context: It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it. Poland fought for freedom as no other country did. The Czech nation was prepared to fight for its freedom in 1938; it was not lack of courage that sealed its fate. The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 — the work of young people with nothing to lose but their chains — triumphed and then ended in failure. … Democracy and freedom do not guarantee the millennium. No, we do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.
Paul Goodman book Growing Up Absurd
Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), p. 94.
“One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.”
Sheldon Kopp (1929–1999) American psychotherapist
Source: Even a stone can be a teacher (1985), p. 11
