“…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.”
Jane Austen book Mansfield Park
Source: Mansfield Park
As quoted in "Green Party's Jill Stein on the Feminist Case Against Hillary Clinton" http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/green-partys-jill-stein-on-the-feminist-case-against-hillary-clinton-20160526?page=2 by Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone (26 May 2016)
“…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.”
Jane Austen book Mansfield Park
Source: Mansfield Park
Kirby Page (1890–1957) American clergyman
Now is the Time to Prevent a Third World War (1950)
Charles A. Reich (1928–2019) American lawyer
The Liberals' Mistake (1987)
Context: The liberals were right when they insisted that we had enough food and goods for all of our people. But they did not — and we still do not — know how to distribute those goods in a rational way. We have failed to figure out how to turn this abundance into an advantage. The liberals were also right about labor-saving. If we evenly distributed the work that needs to be done, there ought to be a lot of time left over for everybody to have the leisure that people need. But we have managed to reverse that. Today, a great many people cannot find any work. People are dispossessed and cannot support themselves or their families. Many are homeless. For many others, work has become a rat race: something to be endured, not enjoyed.
Today we are witnessing an impoverishment: the apparent drying up of resources for all kinds of things that are badly needed. We seem to have no money for housing, for education, or for health and social services. And yet we have a deficit, and we are told by candidates for public office that we must cut the federal budget even more. This impoverishment is a mystery.
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) Yiddish language author and playwright
Idishe Bibliotek, i. Pref., 1890. Alle Verk, xii. 7.
“Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.”
Bobby Fischer (1943–2008) American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer
1970s, BOBBY FISCHER SPEAKS OUT! (1977)
Lilia Buckingham (2003) American actress, author and dancer
Article https://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/a25320496/brat-youtube/ in Seventeen (27 November 2018)
“The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other,… but to beeach other.”
Christopher McDougall (1962) American journalist and writer
Source: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
“We won the race of discovery against the Germans.
Having found the bomb we have used it.”
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
Report on the Potsdam Conference (1945)
Context: I realize the tragic significance of the atomic bomb. Its production and its use were not lightly undertaken by this Government. But we knew that our enemies were on the search for it. We know now how close they were to finding it. And we knew the disaster which would come to this Nation, and to all peace-loving nations, to all civilization, if they had found it first. That is why we felt compelled to undertake the long and uncertain and costly labor of discovery and production. We won the race of discovery against the Germans.
Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans. We shall continue to use it until we completely destroy Japan's power to make war. Only a Japanese surrender will stop us.
John Leguizamo (1964) Colombian and American actor, film producer, voice artist, and comedian
The New York Times, July 14, 1991.