Shahrukh Khan (1965) Indian actor, producer and television personality
From interview with Rajeev Masand
“I do not ask them to assume the worth of my creed or any creed; and I could wish they did not so often ask me to assume the worth of their worthless, poisonous plutocratic modern society.”
The Superstition of Divorce (1920)
Context: I do not ask them to assume the worth of my creed or any creed; and I could wish they did not so often ask me to assume the worth of their worthless, poisonous plutocratic modern society. But if it could be shown, as I think it can, that a long historical view and a patient political experience can at last accumulate solid scientific evidence of the vital need of such a vow, then I can conceive no more tremendous tribute than this, to any faith, which made a flaming affirmation from the darkest beginnings, of what the latest enlightenment can only slowly discover in the end.
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Berthe Morisot (1841–1895) painter from France
from a long unpublished notebook of Berthe Morisot, 1890; as cited in Berthe Morisot, Jean-Dominique Rey; translation in English, Flammarion, S.A. (ISBN: 978-2-08-020345-8), Paris, 2010, 2016, p. 14
1881 - 1895
B.K.S. Iyengar (1918–2014) Indian yoga teacher and scholar
Light on Life: B.K.S. Iyengar's Yoga Insights
“Paradigms can be asked to show their worth, an some of them do not stand up.”
Simon Blackburn (1944) British academic philosopher
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Six, Reasoning, p. 231
Walter Reuther (1907–1970) Labor union leader
Address before the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, India, April 5, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 141
1950s, Address before the Indian Council on World Affairs (1956)
“Ask yourself a question: Is my attitude worth catching?”
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
Emma Orczy (1865–1947) Hungarian-British author of "The Scarlet Pimpernel"
And nothing can be quite so wonderful as the workings of a man's or a woman's destiny.
Source: Links in the Chain of Life (1947), Ch. 8
George Gordon Byron Sardanapalus
shall yet be happy.
Assyria is not all the earth—we'll find
A world out of our own — and be more bless'd
Than I have ever been, or thou, with all
An empire to indulge thee.
Act IV, scene 1.
Sardanapalus (1821)
Saint Patrick (385–461) 5th-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland
Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus (c.450?)
Context: I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I am certain in my heart that "all that I am," I have received from God. So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God. He himself testifies that this is so. I never would have wanted these harsh words to spill from my mouth; I am not in the habit of speaking so sharply. Yet now I am driven by the zeal of God, Christ's truth has aroused me. I speak out too for love of my neighbors who are my only sons; for them I gave up my home country, my parents and even pushing my own life to the brink of death. If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me.
