Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) American general and politician, 7th president of the United States
Martin Luther, Von Kaufhandlung und Wucher, 1524, (Vol. XV, p. 302, of the Weimar edition of Luther's works).
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“One hardly saves a world without ruling it.”
— Emil M. Cioran, book History and Utopia
History and Utopia (1960)
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David Lipscomb (1831–1917) Leader, American Restoration Movement
Source: Civil Government : Its Origin, Mission, and Destiny (1889), p. 73
Context: Human government, the embodied effort of man to rule the world without God, ruled over by "the prince of this world," the devil. Its mission is to execute wrath and vengeance here on earth. Human government bears the same relation to hell as the church bears to heaven.
“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”
Thomas Keneally book Schindler's Ark
Source: Schindler's List
“The world is so disgracefully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.”
Ronald Firbank (1886–1926) British novelist
Vainglory, cited from The Complete Ronald Firbank (London: Duckworth, 1961) p. 149.
“We can’t save the world without food. Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.”
David Brin book Earth
Part II (p. 72)
Earth (1990)
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Some historians have opined that the assassination quip was in response to an assassination threat Lincoln had been notified about earlier.
1860s, Speech in Independence Hall (1861)
Greta Thunberg book No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Declaration of Rebellion, Extinction Rebellion, Parliament Square, London, 31 October 2018.
Cited in No One is Too Small to Make a Difference, Penguin Books, 2019, page 12 (ISBN 9780141991740).
2018, "Almost Everything is Black and White" (October 2018)
“We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Nous ne trouvons guère de gens de bon sens, que ceux qui sont de notre avis.
Maxim 347. Compare: "'That was excellently observed,' say I when I read a passage in another where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, then I pronounce him to be mistaken." Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Charles Bukowski book Women
Variant: You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Source: Women