“A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul”
Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer
“The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.”
1790s, Farewell Address (1796)
Context: The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
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Patrick Henry (1736–1799) attorney, planter, politician and Founding Father of the United States
As quoted in The Best Liberal Quotes Ever : Why the Left is Right (2004) by William P. Martin. Though widely attributed to Henry, this statement has not been sourced to any document before the 1990s and appears to be at odds with his beliefs as a strong opponent of the adoption of the US Constitution.
Misattributed
“A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make any sense.”
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
"The Weaver and the Worm", The New Yorker ( 11 August 1956 http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1956/08/11/1956_08_11_019_TNY_CARDS_000252308); Further Fables for Our Time (1956) <br class="br">From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
What I Think (1956), p. 55 http://books.google.com/books?id=3OchAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Men+may+be+born+free+they+cannot+be+born+wise+and+it+is+the+duty+of+the+university+to+make+the+free+wise%22&pg=PA55#v=onepage
“I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Ethan of Athos (1986)
Roy Jenkins (1920–2003) British politician, historian and writer
Pursuit of Progress (Heinemann, 1953), p. 161
1950s
“It is the fundamental duty of the citizen to resist and to restrain the violence of the state.”
Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist
Noam Chomsky, in John Duffett International War Crimes Tribunal: Against the Crime of Silence: Proceedings. Simon and Schuster, 1970. p. xxiv; Republished at Foreword http://www.chomsky.info/articles/1971----.htm in chomsky.info, accessed May 23, 2014. <br class="br">Quotes 1960s-1980s, 1970s <br class="br">Context: It is the fundamental duty of the citizen to resist and to restrain the violence of the state. Those who choose to disregard this responsibility can justly be accused of complicity in war crimes, which is itself designated as ‘a crime under international law’ in the principles of the Charter of Nuremberg.
“The Cosmic Spirit seeks not to restrain us”
Hermann Hesse book The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game (1943)