“But suicides have a special language.
Like carpenters they want to know which tools.
They never ask why build.
Twice I have so simply declared myself,
have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy,
have taken on his craft, his magic.”
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George Orwell book Homage to Catalonia
Source: Homage to Catalonia (1938)
Context: I have no particular love for the idealised "worker" as he appears in the bourgeois Communist's mind, but when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.
José de San Martín (1778–1850) Argentine general and independence leader
Resignation address to the Peruvian Congress, (22 September 1820), as quoted in 'Captain of the Andes : The Life of José de San Martín, Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru (1943) by Margaret Hayne Harrison, p. 159
Context: I have fulfilled the sacred promises which I made Peru; I have witnessed the assembly of its representatives; the enemy's force threatens the independence of no place that wishes to be free, and that possesses the means of being so. A numerous army, under the direction of warlike chiefs, is ready to march in a few days to put an end to the war. Nothing is left for me to do, but to offer you my sincerest thanks, and to promise, that if the liberties of the Peruvians shall ever be attacked, I shall claim the honor of accompanying them to defend their freedom like a citizen.
“I have invented nothing. I have simply documented a magical alchemy that I want to share.”
Gregory Colbert (1960) Canadian photographer
As quoted in "Dances With Whales" by Alan Riding in The New York Times (22 April 2002) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/22/arts/dances-with-whales.html
Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) American novelist, writer, journalist, political activist
Letter to Norman Thomas (25 September 1951) http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAsocialismP.htm <br class="br">Context: The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to "End Poverty in California" I got 879,000. I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use attacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them.
Ágota Kristóf (1935–2011) Hungarian Swiss writer
Source: The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels
Karl Dönitz (1891–1980) President of Germany; admiral in command of German submarine forces during World War II
1943, quoted in "World War II Almanac, 1931-1945: A Political and Military Record" - Page 293 by Robert Goralski - History - 1981.
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Journals and Papers X4A 435
1840s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s
“Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy—the mother.”
Claudette Colbert (1903–1996) French-American actress
Time (September 14, 1981)