Jeane Kirkpatrick (1926–2006) American diplomat and Presidential advisor
Dictatorship and Double Standards, Commentary (New York, Nov. 1979), quoted in The Columbia World of Quotations, 1996 http://www1.bartleby.com/66/43/32843.html
“A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.”
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“There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife — a tyrannical midwife.”
Stephen Spender (1909–1995) English poet and man of letters
Lecture at Brooklyn College, as quoted in The New York Times (20 November 1984)
“A policeman who doesn’t kill isn’t a policeman.”
Jair Bolsonaro (1955) Brazilian president elect
Event hosted by Veja on 27 November 2017. 'Policial que não mata não é policial', diz Bolsonaro https://politica.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,policial-que-nao-mata-nao-e-policial-diz-bolsonaro,70002098866. Estadão (27 November 2017).
“Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.”
Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet.
Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer
As quoted in The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, A search for Salvation (2007) by Shafique N. Virani, p. 28
“Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.”
John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
The Need of an Industrial Education in an Industrial Democracy (1916)
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Context: It is no accident that all democracies have put a high estimate upon education; that schooling has been their first care and enduring charge. Only through education can equality of opportunity be anything more than a phrase. Accidental inequalities of birth, wealth, and learning are always tending to restrict the opportunities of some as compared with those of others. Only free and continued education can counteract those forces which are always at work to restore, in however changed a form, feudal oligarchy. Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.
“I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.”
Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor
Al Gore (1948) 45th Vice President of the United States
Quotes, IPI speech (2000)
Context: In the Global Age, we must be prepared to engage in regional conflicts selectively — where the stability of a region important to our national security is at stake; where we can assure ourselves that nothing short of military engagement can secure our national interest; where we are certain that the use of military force can succeed in doing so; where we have allies willing to help share the burden, and where the cost is proportionate. America cannot be the world's policeman. But we must reject the new isolationism that says: don't help anywhere, because we can not help everywhere.
Kenneth D. Mackenzie (1937) American management consultant
Kenneth D. Mackenzie (1986), Organizational design: the organizational audit and analysis technology. p. 154