Richard Nixon (1913–1994) 37th President of the United States of America
Source: FRUS, Nixon-Haig telcon, 29 April 1971, p. 99. quoted in Bass, G. J. (2014). The Blood telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide.
“I was moving around the refugee camps and helping the destitute with food and clothes. But I did not wander half-naked because the refugees were naked.”
Godse referring to Gandhi's way of empathising with destitutes not by helping them but by imitating their unfortunate circumstances
Excerpts from the play Mee Nathuram Godse boltoy
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Israel did not cause the Arabs to leave http://web.archive.org/20020604080915/holyland-isreal.tripod.com/pal-refugees.htm, Beirut Telegraph (September 6, 1948).
“Geraldine: At least give me back my clothes. I feel naked without them.”
Joe Orton (1933–1967) English playwright and author
What the Butler Saw (1969), Act I
Lewis Grizzard (1946–1994) American journalist
Source: Lewis Grizzard Naked vs. Nekkid from the Best Of Lewis Grizzard album, September 15, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=achROqQBP9g,
W.B. Yeats book The Winding Stair and Other Poems
A Last Confession http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1404/, St. 3 & 4 <br class="br">The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) <br class="br">Context: p>I gave what other women gave<br>That stepped out of their clothes.<br>But when this soul, its body off,<br>Naked to naked goes,<br>He it has found shall find therein<br>What none other knows,And give his own and take his own<br>And rule in his own right;<br>And though it loved in misery<br>Close and cling so tight,<br>There’s not a bird of day that dare<br>Extinguish that delight.</p
Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress
Madonna Interview : Island Magazine (October 1983), Island, 1983-10-01 http://allaboutmadonna.com/madonna-library/madonna-interview-island-magazine-october-1983, <br class="br">(When asked what she used to draw as a kid).
“Ambition can never be naked in a political campaign, it must be clothed in deceit.”
Michael Kinsley (1951) American political journalist, commentator television host
As quoted in Time, Jan. 4, 2008
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
More Maxims of Mark (1927) edited by Merle Johnson
Variant: Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.