Qui se laisse outrager, mérite qu'on l'outrage
Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.
Heraclius, act I, scene II.
“As age increases, audacity leaks out and caution comes in.”
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841–1920) Royal Navy admiral of the fleet
p. 90. https://archive.org/stream/cu31924027924509#page/n121/mode/1up <br class="br"> Records (1919) https://archive.org/stream/cu31924027924509#page/n0/mode/1up
Mencius (-372–-289 BC) Chinese philosopher
1B:8, In relation to righteousness and the overthrow of the tyrannous King Zhou of Shang, as translated in China (1904) by Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas, p. 8
Variant translations:
The ruffian and the villain we call a mere fellow. I have heard of killing the fellow Chou; I have not heard of killing a king.
As translated in Free China Review, Vol. 5 (1955)
I have merely heard of killing a villain Zhou, but I have not heard of murdering the ruler.
1B:8 as translated by Wing-tsit Chan in A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy (1963), p. 78
The Mencius
Context: He who outrages benevolence is called a ruffian: he who outrages righteousness is called a villain. I have heard of the cutting off of the villain Chow, but I have not heard of the putting of a ruler to death.
“He only has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Original quote from William Penn (1693): They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.
Misattributed
Constantine the Great (274–337) Roman emperor
page 30 of volume 30 of University of Kansas Publications: Humanistic studies https://books.google.ca/books?id=OfIM93M9wjMC&q=%22any+Jew+has+purchased%22 entitled "Persecution of the Jews in the Roman Empire" (see also translation below)
“The Muslim percentage has not only increased, but the rate of increase itself has increased.”
Koenraad Elst (1959) orientalist, writer
Source: 1990s, The Demographic Siege (1997)
Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865) French politician, mutualist philosopher, economist, and socialist
Source: What is Property? (1840), Ch. IV
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
18 June 2018 Tweet https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1008806858176585730 affirmed by Vox article https://www.vox.com/2018/6/18/17476268/hillary-clinton-family-separation-border-immigration <br class="br">Post Presidential Election, Separation of illegally immigrating adults and children (2018)
Maria Weston Chapman (1806–1885) American abolitionist
From [Boston Female Anti-slavery Society, Annual Report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, https://books.google.com/books?id=W5I5AQAAMAAJ, 1836, The Society, 30], as quoted in [Dell, Diana, Memorable Quotations: American Women Writers of the Past, https://books.google.com/books?id=eM3IWooc_zIC, December 2000, iUniverse, 978-0-595-16230-7, 73]
