
“Sleeping on a plank has one advantage — it encourages early rising.”
Adventures in Czarist Russia.
“Sleeping on a plank has one advantage — it encourages early rising.”
Adventures in Czarist Russia.
“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”
1790s
“I’ll stay awake while reason sleeps.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
Source: Beyond Hypocrisy, 1992, Doublespeak Dictionary (within Beyond Hypocrisy), p. 136.
The Moral Life and the Ethical Life (Chicago: 1950), p. 4
“I may have lost the election but I have not lost my reason to live.”
1990s, The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992)
Context: Every four years the naive half who vote are encouraged to believe that if we can elect a really nice man or woman President everything will be all right. But it won't be. Any individual who is able to raise $25 million to be considered presidential is not going to be much use to the people at large. He will represent oil, or aerospace, or banking, or whatever moneyed entities are paying for him. Certainly he will never represent the people of the country, and they know it. Hence, the sense of despair throughout the land as incomes fall, businesses fail and there is no redress.
"Pope: welcoming refugees helps keeps us safe from terrorism", Lexington Herald-Leader (17 September 2016) http://www.kentucky.com/news/nation-world/world/article102453732.html
2010s, 2016
Escudero, F. [Francis]. (2015, April 22). Retrieved from Official Facebook Page of Francis Escudero https://www.facebook.com/senchizescudero/posts/10153227326970610/
2015, Facebook