“Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Iphigenia in Tauris
Act IV, sc. iv
Iphigenie auf Tauris (1787)
Source: Match Me If You Can
“Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Iphigenia in Tauris
Act IV, sc. iv
Iphigenie auf Tauris (1787)
Doris Veillette (1935–2019) Quebec journalist
Chronicle "Interdit aux hommes" (Forbidden to men), by Doris Veillette-Hamel, Journal Le Nouvelliste, December 8, 1973, page 19.
Chronicle "Forbidden to men", 1973
“In judging myself I shall try to be as harsh as truth, as I want others also to be.”
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Introduction
1920s, An Autobiography (1927)
Context: In judging myself I shall try to be as harsh as truth, as I want others also to be. Measuring myself by that standard I must exclaim with Surdas: ' Where is there a wretch So wicked and loathsome as I? I have forsaken my Maker, So faithless have I been.' For it is an unbroken torture to me that I am still so far from him, who, as I fully know, governs every breath of my life, and whose offspring I am. I know that it is the evil passions within that keep me so far from Him, and yet I cannot get away from them.
Ismail ibn Musa Menk (1975) Muslim cleric and Grand Mufti of Zimbabwe.
8 April 2016 https://twitter.com/muftimenk/status/718503303324311562 <br class="br">Twitter
Joe Trohman (1984) American musician
On the lack of attention he and Andy Hurley get
My Heart Will Always Be The B-Side To My Tongue (2004), Rolling Stone Interview
“… when people charge us with harshness we wonder how they can forget the rudiments of Marxism.”
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
As quoted in Speech All-Russia Extraordinary Commission Staff, Collected Works, Vol. 28, pp. 169-70.
Attributions
Günter Reimann (1904–2005) German economist
Source: The Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism, 2014, p. 12
Umar (585–644) Second Caliph of Rashidun Caliphate and a companion of Muhammad
As quoted in Al Farooq, Umar (1944) by Muhammad Husayn Haykal, Ch. 5, p. 123
Norman Malcolm (1911–1990) American philosopher
Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir, 1958
Manmohan Singh (1932) 13th Prime Minister of India
Responding to the opposition of Communist Party of India (Marxist) towards the India–United States Civil Nuclear Agreement, as quoted in "‘Anguished’ PM to Left: If you want to withdraw, so be it" http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070811/asp/frontpage/story_8179523.asp, The Telegraph (India) (11 August 2007) <br class="br">2006-2010