Source: Gone with the Wind
“I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.”
Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol
Person-to-Person interview (CBS) with Charles Collingwood, September 1959 http://books.google.com/books?id=21R_KPMzH2EC&q="I've+always+had+a+weakness+for+foreign+affairs"&pg=PA82#v=onepage
“Lost causes are the only causes worth fighting for.”
Ethel Lina White book The Wheel Spins
The Wheel Spins (1932), p 270.
A variation of this quote also appears in the film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
“Whatever your cause, it’s a lost cause without population control.”
Paul R. Ehrlich (1932) American scientist and environmentalist
Paul Ehrlich and the population bomb
Context: Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism… of sexism… of religious intolerance… of war… of gross economic inequality—But if you don’t solve the population problem, you’re not going to solve any of those problems. Whatever problem you’re interested in, you’re not going to solve it unless you also solve the population problem. Whatever your cause, it’s a lost cause without population control.
“…man…is a frail, lost creature, too weak to walk unaided.”
William March (1893–1954) United States Marine, novelist, short story writer
This Heavy Load (1931)
“Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.”
Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
This quote is from Ethel Lina White's The Wheel Spins (1936). It was popularized in the film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). In this film a similar line was spoken by "Jefferson Smith".
Misattributed
“Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.”
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
Source: Anonymous reader point out that quote appears on internet from 2015. Rumi, having died in the 1200s, when the first mention of this quote was around 2015.
