Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist
Source: (1776), Book V, Chapter II, Part II, p. 896.
“These men are not made of the same stuff as the Francis Drakes and the other magnificent adventurers who created the empire. These, after all, are the tired sons of a long line of rich men, and they will lose their empire.”
Remarks to Count Ciano (11 January 1939) after meeting Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax, quoted in Malcolm Muggeridge (ed.), Ciano's Diary, 1939–1943 (1947), pp. 9–10
1930s
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Original: O império supremo é o do Imperador que abdica de toda a vida normal, dos outros homens, em quem o cuidado da supremacia não pesa como um fardo de jóias.
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
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“Empirically speaking, we are made of star stuff. Why aren’t we talking more about that?”
Maggie Nelson (1973) American writer
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Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
Si tous sont destinés en naissant à souffrir la violence, c'est là une vérité à laquelle l'empire des circonstances ferme les esprits des hommes.
in The Simone Weil Reader, p. 163
Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Iliad or The Poem of Force (1940-1941)
Sam Walter Foss (1858–1911) American writer
"The Coming American" (July 4, 1894), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
A History of the American People (1902), describing the Klan as a brotherhood of politically disenfranchised white men; famously quoted in The Birth of a Nation (1915)
1900s
“Different men are made of different stuff.”
Girolamo Gigli (1660–1722) Italian dramaturge
La Sorellina di Pilone (1712), Act V., Sc. XVI. — (Burino.)
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 425.
“It is exactly this men’s health void that creates your son’s men’s health opportunity.”
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 300