“We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
No. 3
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)
Source: The Outlaw Josey Wales
“We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
No. 3
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)
“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Sometimes attributed to Lincoln since a 1950 speech of Douglas MacArthur citing him as its author, this is actually from a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Misattributed
“To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men.”
Protest, contained in "Poems of Problems", pp. 154–55 (1914). This quotation is often misattributed to Abraham Lincoln.
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)
“It takes a different kind of courage to be a coward.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
Robert Benchley (1889–1945) American comedian
Vanity Fair (February 1920)
Variant: There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not.
Context: There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not. Both classes are extremely unpleasant to meet socially, leaving practically no one in the world whom one cares very much to know.