“These men are all talk; What is needed is action”
John Brown (abolitionist) (1800–1859) American abolitionist
action!
Remarks at the New England Anti-Slavery Convention (May 1859), quoted in William Lloyd Garrison by Wendell and Francis Garrison.
“What art needs is greater men, and what politics needs is better men.”
Something About a Soldier (1940)
Context: Wars, for us, are either inevitable, or created. Whatever they are, they should not wholly vitiate art. What art needs is greater men, and what politics needs is better men.
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“Better is art, than evil strength; for with art men may hold what strength may not obtain.”
Source: Brut, Line 8590; vol. 2, p. 297.
Max Beckmann (1884–1950) German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor and writer
In a letter to Stephan Lackner, Amsterdam, 29 January 1938; as quoted in Max Beckmann – On my Painting, in the preface, Mayen Beckmann; Tate Publishing London, 2003
1930s
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
"The Duchess and the Bugs", 'Lanterns & Lances (1961).
From Lanterns and Lances
Alexis Carrel (1873–1944) French surgeon and biologist
As quoted in Nava-Vēda : God and Man (Nara and Narayan) (1968) by M. B. Raja Rao, p. 229
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
(20 November 1847)
1840s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s
Context: What the age needs is not a genius — it has had geniuses enough, but a martyr, who in order to teach men to obey would himself be obedient unto death. What the age needs is awakening. And therefore someday, not only my writings but my whole life, all the intriguing mystery of the machine will be studied and studied. I never forget how God helps me and it is therefore my last wish that everything may be to his honour.
“Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.”
Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist
Source: Riding Shotgun
“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
Dan Brown book The Da Vinci Code
Source: The Da Vinci Code
James Bovard (1956) American journalist
From Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years (St. Martin's Press, 2000) http://www.jimbovard.com/Epigrams%20page%20Feeling%20Your%20Pain.htm