Dale Carnegie book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Book XI, line 1560.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
Dale Carnegie book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“All selfishness is the great curse of the human race”
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom
Speech at Hawarden (28 May 1890), quoted in The Times (29 May 1890), p. 12.
1890s
Context: All selfishness is the great curse of the human race, and when we have a real sympathy with other people less happy than ourselves that is a good sign of something like a beginning of deliverance from selfishness.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart.”
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works (Translation by William J. Cole) 10, III, p. 313
“For crude classifications and false generalisations are the curse of all organised human life.”
H. G. Wells book A Modern Utopia
Source: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 10, sect. 1
“And virtue they will curse, speaking harsh words.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
XI, 32
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book XI
Valerie Solanas (1936–1988) American radical feminist and writer. Attempted to assassinate Andy Warhol.
Source: SCUM MANIFESTO (1967), p. [1] ("y(male)" & "x(female)" spaceless in original).