“One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.”
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Albert Speer21
German architect, Minister of Armaments and War Production … 1905–1981Related quotes
George Moore (novelist) (1852–1933) Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist
Vain Fortune, Chapter 2.
“When anyone says he’s a country boy, put your hand on your wallet.”
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)
While Lyndon Johnson is reported to have said this (or a variation), it was not original to him. See barrypopik.com http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/when_anyone_says_hes_a_country_boy_you_better_put_your_hand_on_your_wallet and Texas, A Modern History: Revised Edition https://books.google.com/books?id=WQNo7e3jjysC&pg=PA215#v=onepage&q&f=false. <br class="br">Misattributed
“Like him in Æsop, he whipped his horses withal, and put his shoulder to the wheel.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 1, member 2, Lawful Cures, first from God.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
“Put your shoulder to the wheel.”
Aesop (-620–-564 BC) ancient Greek storyteller
Hercules and the Wagoner.
Alex Haley (1921–1992) African American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist
Source: Roots : The Saga of an American Family (1976), Ch. 51.
Karen Armstrong (1944) author and comparative religion scholar from Great Britain
Muhammad: A Prophet of Our Times
Muhammad: A Biography of The Prophet (2001)
“Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.”
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
This quote was attributed to Albert Schweitzer by Rachel Carson on p. 17 of her seminal work Silent Spring (1962), and is widely cited on various Internet websites, but an actual source from Schweitzer’s works is elusive.
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