As quoted in The New York Times (18 June 1950); also in Thomas Mann: A Critical Study (1971) by R. J. Hollingdale, Ch. 2
“Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.”
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate
As quoted in The New York Times (18 June 1950); also in Thomas Mann: A Critical Study (1971) by R. J. Hollingdale, Ch. 2
“The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.”
Jim Harrison (1937–2016) American novelist, poet, essayist
Source: Off to the Side: A Memoir
“This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.”
Thomas Browne book Religio Medici
Section 38
Religio Medici (1643), Part I
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, Address to Cornell College (1962)
Newt Gingrich (1943) Professor, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
2010-09-11
Gingrich: Obama’s ‘Kenyan, anti-colonial’ worldview
Robert
Costa
National Review
0028-0038
2010s
“Reason must know the heart's reasons and every other reason”
Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) Mexican artist, surrealist painter and novelist
“There's a reason they say,"Pride goeth before a fall.”
Richelle Mead book Frostbite
Source: Frostbite
Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist
Equality (1943)
Context: Every intrusion of the spirit that says, "I'm as good as you" into our personal and spiritual life is to be resisted just as jealously as every intrusion of bureaucracy or privilege into our politics. Hierarchy within can alone preserve egalitarianism without. Romantic attacks on democracy will come again. We shall never be safe unless we already understand in our hearts all that the anti-democrats can say, and have provided for it better than they. Human nature will not permanently endure flat equality if it is extended from its proper political field into the more real, more concrete fields within. Let us wear equality; but let us undress every night.
Howard Zinn (1922–2010) author and historian
Source: Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice
William Henry Maule (1788–1858) British politician
Martindale v. Falkner (1846), 2 C. B. 720, and characterised by Blackburn, J., in The Queen v. Mayor of Tewkesbury, L. R. 3 Q. B. 629.
