“Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot”
Agatha Christie book Death in the Clouds
Source: Death in the Clouds
“The unfortunate thing about public misfortunes is that everyone regards himself as qualified to talk about them.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
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Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer
Quoted as the opening passage of "BOOK ONE: The Functions of Language" in Language in Thought and Action (1949) by S. I. Hayakawa, p. 3
Words and Their Meanings (1940)
Context: A great deal of attention has been paid … to the technical languages in which men of science do their specialized thinking … But the colloquial usages of everyday speech, the literary and philosophical dialects in which men do their thinking about the problems of morals, politics, religion and psychology — these have been strangely neglected. We talk about "mere matters of words" in a tone which implies that we regard words as things beneath the notice of a serious-minded person.
This is a most unfortunate attitude. For the fact is that words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study. The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have a magical effect — but not in the way that magicians supposed, and not on the objects they were trying to influence. Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them. "A mere matter of words," we say contemptuously, forgetting that words have power to mould men's thinking, to canalize their feeling, to direct their willing and acting. Conduct and character are largely determined by the nature of the words we currently use to discuss ourselves and the world around us.
Jack Donovan (1974) American activist, editor and writer
Pg 88
Becoming A Barbarian (2016)
Context: The modern individualist - egoist, even - usually still talks about what everyone else talks about when they are talking about it, operates within a comfort one of social norms and lives by himself in a way that is generally acceptable to what he calls, usually with some derision, "the herd." At his most individualistic, he is a troll, a heckler, a parasite. A troll can't be trusted, and should always be shunned and despised, even though it will only feed into his self-schema.
“Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.”
Keith Richards (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones
“I don't regard Jews as a class. I regard them as a privileged misfortune.”
William Joyce (1906–1946) British fascist and propaganda broadcaster
Francis Selwyn, Hitler's Englishman (Penguin Books, 1987), p. 43
Speech at Chiswick, 1934.
“It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.”
Rose Macaulay (1881–1958) English novelist and writer
“Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about.”
Willard van Orman Quine (1908–2000) American philosopher and logician
Ways of Paradox and Other Essays (1976), p. 174
1970s
Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)
2020, December <br class="br">Source: Biden on a call with Civil Rights leaders. ( December 10, 2020 https://theintercept.com/2020/12/10/biden-audio-meeting-civil-rights-leaders/).<br><br>https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2020/12/23/biden-did-not-say-country-doomed-because-african-americans/4034937001/ Fact check: Biden's 'country is doomed' quote is being taken out of context on social media