1950s, Closing address at the final convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1955)
I have been saying for a long time that I believe the more young Americans who are trained to join with other young people in the world to be sent abroad with slide rule, textbook, and medical kit to help people help themselves with the tools of peace, the fewer young people will need to be sent with guns and weapons of war.
Source: Closing Address at the final convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, New York, New York, December 2, 1955, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 102
“He who serves our Führer, Adolf Hitler, serves Germany, and he who serves Germany, serves God.”
Baldur von Schirach (1907–1974) German Nazi leader convicted of crimes against humanity in the Nuremberg trial
Quoted in "Germany 1918-1945" - by J. A. Cloake - Germany - 1997
“Hermes:
Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
The Masque of Pandora and Other Poems (1875)
Katie MacAlister (1964) Author
Source: A Girl's Guide to Vampires
“He was a man
Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven
To serve the Devil in.”
Robert Pollok book The Course of Time
Book viii, line 616.
The Course of Time (published 1827)
“A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
James H. Cone (1938–2018) American theologian
Source: Black Theology and Black Power (1969), p. 39
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
The Crisis No. II.
1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)
Leslie Weatherhead (1893–1976) English theologian
Source: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.208-209
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
As quoted in Vivekananda : The Yogas and Other Works (1953), p. 173; also at "The Story Of Swami Vivekananda: Mission Impossible" at MyLifeYoga (10 December 2011) http://mylifeyoga.com/2011/12/10/the-story-of-swami-vivekananda-mission-impossibl/ <br class="br">Context: After so much austerity I have known that the highest truth is this: He is present in every being! These are all in manifold forms of him. There is no other God to seek for! He alone is worshipping God, who serves all beings!
“Let us achieve great things for those who granted us the privilege to serve.”
Alex Salmond (1954) Scottish National Party politician and former First Minister of Scotland
Scotland and Northern Ireland (June 18, 2007)
