Richard Pipes (1923–2018) American historian
Source: Russia Under The Bolshevik Regime (1994), p. 260
Source: Three Faces of Fascism: Action Française, Italian Fascism, National Socialism (1965), p. 336
Richard Pipes (1923–2018) American historian
Source: Russia Under The Bolshevik Regime (1994), p. 260
“But Caesar had more than a mere name and military reputation: his energy could never rest, and his one disgrace was to conquer without war.”
Sed non in Caesare tantum<br/>nomen erat nec fama ducis, sed nescia virtus<br/>stare loco, solusque pudor non vincere bello.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Sed non in Caesare tantum
nomen erat nec fama ducis, sed nescia virtus
stare loco, solusque pudor non vincere bello.
Book I, line 143 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
Roger Zelazny book Jack of Shadows
Source: Jack of Shadows (1971), Chapter 2 (p. 16)
Anthony Lewis movie Gideon's Trumpet
[8, Anthony, Lewis, w:Anthony Lewis, Vintage, 1989, 9780679723127, Gideon's Trumpet, http://books.google.com/books?id=IhDfidRb5wIC&pg=PA8&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Spider Robinson (1948) Canadian author
God Is An Iron (1977)
Context: Man has historically devoted much more subtle and ingenious thought to inflicting cruelty than to giving others pleasure — which, given his gregarious nature, would seem a much more survival-oriented behavior. Poll any hundred people at random and you'll find at least twenty or thirty who know all there is to know about psychological torture and psychic castration — and maybe two who know how to give a terrific back-rub.
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
1920s, The Progress of a People (1924)
Context: The armies in the field could not have done their part in the war if they had not been sustained and supported by the far greater civilian forces at home, which through unremitting toil made it possible to sustain our war effort. No part of the community responded more willingly, more generously, more unqualifiedly, to the demand for special extraordinary exertion, than did the members of the Negro race. Whether in the military service, or in the vast mobilization of industrial resources which the war required, the Negro did his part precisely as did the white man. He drew no color line when patriotism made its call upon him. He gave precisely as his white fellow citizens gave, to the limit of resources and abilities, to help the general cause. Thus the American Negro established his right to the gratitude and appreciation which the Nation has been glad to accord.
Jonah Goldberg (1969) American political writer and pundit
2010s, 2018, Socialism is So Hot Right Now (2018)