Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
“Good God, what a brute man becomes when ignorant and oppressed. Oh Liberty! What horrors are committed in thy name! May every virtuous revolutionist remember the horrors of Wexford!”
Written in his Journal, 2nd Jan 1799, referring to the recent 1798 Rebellion. Quoted from Vol I, p. 205, of O'Neill Daunt, W. J., Personal Recollections of the Late Daniel O'Connell, M.P., 2 Vols, London, 1848.
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“O Liberty, how many crimes are committed in thy name!”
Marie-Jeanne Roland de la Platière (1754–1793) French revolutionary
On being led to her execution, sometimes stated to have been directed at a specific statue of Liberty, in Memoirs, Appendix; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), and in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922); used by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Essay on Mirabeau.<br>Variants:<br>O liberté, comme on t'a jouée!<br>O Liberty, how thou hast been played with!<br>As quoted in Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France (1795) by Helen Maria Williams, Vol. 1, p. 201 http://books.google.de/books?id=FTkuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA201
“The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.”
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“It is a more rational belief that man may become a brute than that a brute may become a man;”
David Brewster (1781–1868) British astronomer and mathematician
The facts and fancies of Mr. Darwin (1862)
Context: It is a more rational belief that man may become a brute than that a brute may become a man; and it is an easier faith that plants and animals may dwindle down into an elemental atom, than that this atom should embrace in its organization, and evolve, all the noble forms of vegetable, animal, and intellectual life.
“Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name!”
Eugéne Ionesco (1909–1994) Romanian playwright
Jacques from Jacques or the Submission (1955)
“Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.”
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
Tout homme sensé, tout homme de bien, doit avoir la secte chrétienne en horreur. <br class="br"> Examen important de milord Bolingbroke http://www.worldcat.org/title/examen-important-de-milord-bolingbroke-ecrit-sur-la-fin-de-1736-accompagne-des-notes-de-mr-m-editeur-de-ses-ouvrages/oclc/11007337 (1736): Conclusion <br class="br">Citas
“You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.”
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor
“What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine”
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing
they are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine — they are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior, jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.
Letter (5 May 1855), published in Florence Nightingale : An Introduction to Her Life and Family (2001), edited by Lynn McDonald, p. 141
