William Cobbett (1763–1835) English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist
Political Register (17 August 1833), p. 386
1830s
2000-09, Truth to Power, 2008
William Cobbett (1763–1835) English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist
Political Register (17 August 1833), p. 386
1830s
Jean Dubuffet book Prospectus et tous écrits suivants
Source: 1960-70's, Prospectus et tous écrits suivants, 1967, p. 483
“I believe in my tusks.
Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.”
Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962) American poet
"The Stars Go Over The Lonely Ocean" (1940)
Context: Keep clear of the dupes that talk democracy
And the dogs that talk revolution,
Drunk with talk, liars and believers.
I believe in my tusks.
Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.
Sisi Yemmie (1984) Nigerian Youtuber
Source: https://guardian.ng/life/spotlight/sisi-yemmie-the-inspirational-vlogger/ yemmie speaking at an interview
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), V : The Rationalist Dissolution
Context: In books of psychology written from the spiritualist point of view, it is customary to begin the discussion of the existence of the soul as a simple substance, separable from the body, after this style: There is in me a principle which thinks, wills and feels... Now this implies a begging of the question. For it is far from being an immediate truth that there is in me such a principle; the immediate truth is that I think, will and feel. And I — the I that thinks, wills and feels — am immediately my living body with the states of consciousness which it sustains. It is my living body that thinks, wills and feels.
Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea
Ma pensée, c'est moi: voilà pourquoi je ne peux pas m'arrêter. J'existe parce que je pense … et je ne peux pas m'empêcher de penser.
Lundi ("Monday")
Nausea (1938)
Oriana Fallaci (1929–2006) Italian writer
As quoted in "The Agitator: Oriana Fallaci directs her fury toward Islam" by Margaret Talbot, in The New Yorker (5 June 2006)
Jean Sirmond (1589–1649) French poet
Causæ Bibendi, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). These lines are a poetic translation of a Latin epigram (erroneously ascribed to Henry Aldrich in the Biographia Britannica, second edition, vol. i. p. 131), which Menage and De la Monnoye attribute to Père Sirmond:
Si bene commemini, causæ sunt quinque bibendi:
Hospitis adventus; præsens sitis atque futura;
Et vini bonitas, et quælibet altera causa.
Menagiana, vol. i. p. 172.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
As quoted in The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America (2002) by James MacGregor Burns ad Susan Dunn, p. 563
Variant: I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.