“Let them burn and we shall clap our hands.”
Madame Nhu (1924–2011) First lady of South Vietnam
[Our Vietnam: the war, 1954–1975, Langguth, A. J., 2000] p.216. Referring to the immolation of Buddhist monks including Thích Quảng Đức in 1963.
TED, February 2010
“Let them burn and we shall clap our hands.”
Madame Nhu (1924–2011) First lady of South Vietnam
[Our Vietnam: the war, 1954–1975, Langguth, A. J., 2000] p.216. Referring to the immolation of Buddhist monks including Thích Quảng Đức in 1963.
Nur Jahan (1577–1645) Padshah Begum of the Mughal Empire
epitaph on Nur Jahan's tomb, translated by Wheeler Thackston, quoted in "Nur Jahan", p. 275
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Avram Davidson (1923–1993) novelist
Source: Rogue Dragon (1965), Chapter V (p. 49)
“Let down a lighted lamp, and if it keeps burning, a man may make the descent without danger.”
Vitruvius book De architectura
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book VIII, Chapter VI, Sec. 13
Context: To guard against this, we must proceed as follows. Let down a lighted lamp, and if it keeps burning, a man may make the descent without danger.
Neil Young (1945) Canadian singer-songwriter
Don't Let It Bring You Down
Song lyrics, After the Gold Rush (1970)
Ellie Goulding (1986) English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
Song lyric of "Burn", written by Goulding, Greg Kurstin, Brent Kutzle, Ryan Tedder, and Noel Zancanella
Halcyon Days (2013)