Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (1879–1973) Tamil politician and social reformer
Quoted in Quotes of Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Velivada.com
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“I should NOT be trading on the blood of my men.”
On refusing requests to write his memoirs, as quoted in Gentlemen of Virginia (1961) page 188 by Marshall William Fishwick; also cited as possibly apocryphal in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (2004) edited by Elizabeth M. Knowles
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Thomas Jackson (1824–1863) Confederate general
To Col. Sam Fulkerson, who reported on the weariness of their troops and suggested that they should be given an hour or so to rest from a forced march in the night. (24 May 1862); as quoted in Mighty Stonewall (1957) by Frank E. Vandiver, p. 250
Context: I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I may save their blood tomorrow. The line of hills southwest of Winchester must not be occupied by the enemy's artillery. My own must be there and in position by daylight. … You shall however have two hours rest.
Henry Williamson (1895–1977) British ruralist and natural history writer
The Village Book (1930) – after a killing of a badger by villagers.
Arthur Scargill (1938) British trade unionist
Speech (21 December 1977), quoted in Paul Routledge and Ronald Kershaw, "Judge stops attempt to ban pit bonus plan", The Times (22 December 1977), p. 1
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
"Ode to Tranquility", st. 4 (1801)
“Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.”
Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992) German-American actress and singer
“Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Letter to Harrison Blake (20 May 1860); published in Familiar Letters (1865)
Context: Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but they are not so well housed, they are not so contented in their houses, as the woodchucks in their holes. What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? — If you cannot tolerate the planet that it is on? Grade the ground first. If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him … he will be surrounded by grandeur. He is in the condition of a healthy and hungry man, who says to himself, — How sweet this crust is!
“I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed.”
Sitting Bull (1831–1890) Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man
Recorded by the Jesuit priest Pierre-Jean De Smet after a council with Sitting Bull on June 19, 1868. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 79-80.
Context: I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed. The whites provoked the war; their injustices, their indignities to our families, the cruel, unheard of and wholly unprovoked massacre at Fort Lyon … shook all the veins which bind and support me. I rose, tomahawk in hand, and I have done all the hurt to the whites that I could.
“I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.”
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
As quoted in Newsweek (29 October 2001), "The Classroom Of The Future" http://archive.is/20130104221536/www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2001/10/28/the-classroom-of-the-future.html <br class="br">2000s <br class="br">Variant: I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.