Source: Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind
cnn.com http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/04/03/collins.commentary/
“When spirit rises and commands,
The gods are ready to obey.”
As A Man Thinketh (1902), Effect of Thought on Circumstances
Context: Be not impatient in delays,
But wait, as one who understands.
When spirit rises and commands,
The gods are ready to obey.
“Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”
Part 1.7 Conclusion
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)
Context: Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
The Quintessence of Nehru (1961) edited by K. T. Narasimhachar, p. 120
“Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.”
Remembered by Alexander Woollcott in his Shouts and Murmurs (1922) p. 87.
To actresses playing the ladies-in-waiting in a production of Henry VIII, "peering at them plaintively through his monocle".
“I don't mind being called a liberal. I just don't really think it's true.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A11710-2003Jul5?language=printer
