Meša Selimović book Death and the Dervish
Death and the Dervish (Derviš i smrt), Part II, page. 329.
Death and the Dervish (1966)
Meša Selimović book Death and the Dervish
Death and the Dervish (Derviš i smrt), Part II, page. 329.
Death and the Dervish (1966)
“Ori supposed there were as many unspeakable stories as there were men come back from war.”
China Miéville book Iron Council
Part 4 “The Hainting”, chapter 15 (p. 314)
Iron Council (2004)
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) British businessman, politician, and statesman
Speech to the Eighty Club, London (28 April 1885), quoted The Times (29 April 1885), p. 10.
1880s
Arnold Toynbee (1852–1883) British economic historian
Source: Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England (1884), p. 134
Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 37
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, November, New York Times Interview (November 23, 2016)
Kirby Page (1890–1957) American clergyman
"What is War?" (1924)
Qu Yuan (-343–-278 BC) ancient Chinese poet
Source: "Encountering Sorrow" (trans. David Hawkes), Line 127
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 167.
John Oliver (1977) English comedian
And their confidence was seductive!
John Oliver: Terrifying Times (2008)
Adam Schaff (1913–2006) Polish Marxist philosopher and theorist
Adam Schaff (1967), "Functional Definition, Ideology, and the Problem of the 'fin du siècle' of Ideology." L’Homme et la Société, April-June 1967. pp. 49-61; p. 50
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
Correspondance avec le pasteur Pfister, 1909-1939, Gallimard, 1991, p.103; as quoted in Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World by Matthieu Ricard
Attributed from posthumous publications
A.J.P. Taylor (1906–1990) Historian
"The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p 34
The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939 (1957)
“Is not Precedent indeed a King of men?”
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
A Word from the Psalmist.
Undated
Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) 31st President of the United States of America
Excerpted from Chapter 11 "The Profession of Engineering"
The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: Years of Adventure, 1874-1929 (1951)
Sita Ram Goel (1921–2003) Indian activist
History of Heroic Hindu Resistance to Early Muslim Invaders (1984; 2001)
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English writer
LXXX, Of Life and Death, lines 1-8
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), Epigrams
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
Sjálfstætt fólk (Independent People) (1935), Book One, Part I: Icelandic Pioneers
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, July, (21 July 2016)
“"What," say you, "are you giving me advice? Indeed, have you already advised yourself, already corrected your own faults? Is this the reason why you have leisure to reform other men?" No, I am not so shameless as to undertake to cure my fellow-men when I am ill myself. I am, however, discussing with you troubles which concern us both, and sharing the remedy with you, just as if we were lying ill in the same hospital.”
Tu me' inquis 'mones? iam enim te ipse monuisti, iam correxisti? ideo aliorum emendationi vacas?' Non sum tam improbus ut curationes aeger obeam, sed, tamquam in eodem valetudinario iaceam, de communi tecum malo colloquor et remedia communico.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Tu me' inquis 'mones? iam enim te ipse monuisti, iam correxisti? ideo aliorum emendationi vacas?'
Non sum tam improbus ut curationes aeger obeam, sed, tamquam in eodem valetudinario iaceam, de communi tecum malo colloquor et remedia communico.
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXVII
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
Refusing to bargain for freedom after 21 years in prison, as quoted in TIME (25 February 1985)
1980s
Jack Finney book Time and Again
Source: Time and Again (1970), Chapter 8 (p. 108)
Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) French painter
Quote of Camille Pissarro, Paris, 2 April 1883, in a letter to his son Lucien; from Camille Pissarro - Letters to His Son Lucien ed. John Rewald, with assistance of Lucien Pissarro; from the unpublished French letters; transl. Lionel Abel; Pantheon Books Inc. New York, second edition, 1943, p. 26
1880's
Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 174.
Richard Cobden (1804–1865) English manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman
Letter to John Bright (14 September 1854), quoted in John Morley, The Life of Richard Cobden (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1905), p. 626.
1850s
John Calvin book Institutes of the Christian Religion
Prefatory Address, p. 18
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536; 1559)
Báb (1819–1850) Iranian prophet; founder of the religion Bábism; venerated in the Bahá'í Faith
VIII, 1
The Persian Bayán
“Too much chicken soup for the soul is not a good thing. Working men eat meat and potatoes.”
Donald Miller (1971) American writer
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)
Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937) British statesman; prime minister of the United Kingdom
Letter to the Mayor of Leicester, declining to speak at a recruitment meeting (September 1914), quoted in David Marquand, Ramsay MacDonald (Metro, 1997), p. 175
1910s
John Hall (1829–1898) Presbyterian pastor from Northern Ireland in New York, died 1898
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 478.
“Discover the force of the heavens O Men:
Once recognised it can be put to use:
No use could be seen in unknown things.”
Vim coeli reserate viri: venit agnita ad usus:
Ignotae videas commoda nulla rei.
Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer
De fundamentis astrologiae certioribus [On the more Certain Fundamentals of Astrology or On Giving Astrology Sounder Foundations] (written 1601; published 1602) in Opera Omnia, Vol. 1, Heyder & Zimmer, 1858, p. 417 (title-page)
“Men of England, wherefore plough
For the lords who lay ye low?”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
Song to the Men of England http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/673/ (1819), st. 1
Paul Blobel (1894–1951) German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator
Quoted in "The Eichmann Kommandos" - Page 158 - by Michael Angelo Musmanno - 1961.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1840s, Past and Present (1843)
Ziauddin Barani (1285–1357) Indian Muslim historian and political thinker (1285–1357)
Fatawa-i-Jahandari, p.64. quoted from Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 4
Fatawa-i-Jahandari
Washington Gladden (1836–1918) American pastor
Source: The Nation and the Kingdom (1909), pp. 10-11 http://books.google.com/books?id=MSg3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA10
“Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 843.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1950s, Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
William Morley Punshon (1824–1881) English Nonconformist minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 215.
Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Needs of the Soul (1949), p. 97
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) French anthropologist and ethnologist
Structural Anthropology, Volume 2 (1973), trans. Monique Layton, University of Chicago Press, 1983, p. 41 https://books.google.it/books?id=hI74gavU7J4C&pg=PA41
Robert Menzies (1894–1978) Australian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia
Eulogy for Winston Churchill, delivered from the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral, during the latter's funeral, January 30, 1965
Second Term as Prime Minister (1949-1966)
Source: http://australianpolitics.com/1965/01/30/robert-menzies-eulogy-for-winston-churchill.html
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) English politician
The Anatomy of an Equivalent : from The Complete Works of George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax (1912), ed. Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Clarendon Press p. 123.
The Anatomy of an Equivalent (1688)
“A government of laws, and not of men.”
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
No. 7; this was incorporated into the Massachusetts Constitution in 1780
1770s, Novanglus essays (1774–1775)
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
1920s, Speech on the Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence (1926)
Otto Weininger book Sex and Character
Große Männer nehmen sich selbst und die Dinge zu ernst, um öfter als gelegentlich »geistreich« zu sein. Menschen, die nichts sind als eben »geistreich«, sind unfromme Menschen; es sind solche, die, von den Dingen nicht wirklich erfüllt, an ihnen nie ein aufrichtiges und tiefes Interesse nehmen, in denen nicht lang und schwer etwas der Geburt entgegenstrebt. Es ist ihnen nur daran gelegen, daß ihr Gedanke glitzere und funkle wie eine prächtig zugeschliffene Raute, nicht, daß er auch etwas beleuchte! Und das kommt daher, weil ihr Sinnen vor allem die Absicht auf das behält, was die anderen zu eben diesen Gedanken wohl »sagen« werden—eine Rücksicht, die durchaus nicht immer »rücksichtsvoll« ist.
Source: Sex and Character (1903), p. 104.
Margot Asquith (1864–1945) Anglo-Scottish socialite, author and wit
The Autobiography of Margot Asquith (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963) p. 249. (1922).
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) English writer and poet
The Song of Seventy.
A Thousand Lines (1846)
James Madison (1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)
Federalist No. 10
1780s, Federalist Papers (1787–1788)
Alexander Mackenzie (1822–1892) 2nd Prime Minister of Canada
Speech to Working Men of Dundee July 14, 1875 Evoking Burn’s A Man’s A Man For A’ That - Speeches of Alexander Mackenzie during his recent visit...page 44
Herrick Johnson (1832–1913) American clergyman
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 70.
David Gemmell book Stormrider
Source: Rigante series, Stormrider, Ch. 2
Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) English poet
"Tale of the Secret Tribunal" (published 1822), part i, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Vālmīki Legendary Indian poet, author of the Ramayana
Source: King of Siam Rama I The-Ramayana https://books.google.co.in/books?id=OvqbCHa3zWkC&pg=PA19, Islamic Books, 1967, p. 19.
Tony Benn (1925–2014) British Labour Party politician
From an issued statement from Mr. Benn on five dockers imprisoned for contempt of court (21 July 1972)
1970s
Robert A. Heinlein book Between Planets
Source: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 6, “The Sign in the Sky” (p. 74) - Speech given before the destruction of the nuclear-armed satellite Circum-Terra.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
1920s, Viereck interview (1929)
“Men want to be alone, but we don't wanna be by ourselves.”
Patrice O'Neal (1969–2011) American stand-up comedian, radio personality, and actor
Stand Up
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 16
Robert Louis Stevenson book Songs of Travel and Other Verses
No. XV
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
“You are like all cruel men, sentimental; you are like all sentimental men; squeamish.”
Brian W. Aldiss (1925–2017) British science fiction author
“Poor Little Warrior!” p. 80
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“One has lived long enough if one has had time to win the love of women and the esteem of men.”
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos book Les Liaisons dangereuses
On a toujours assez vécu, quand on a eu le temps d’acquérir l’amour des femmes et l’estime des hommes. <br class="br">Letter 79: Le Vicomte de Valmont to la Marquise de Merteuil. Trans. P.W.K. Stone (1961). http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Liaisons_dangereuses_-_Lettre_79 <br class="br">Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)
Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862) English historian
" The Influence Of Women On The Progress Of Knowledge http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/u-rel/buckle.html". Lecture given at the Royal Institution 19 March 1858. In: The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle (1872)
“Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.”
Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Freeman (1948), p. 151
Durant (1939), Ch. XVI, §II, p. 354; citing C. Bakewell, Sourcebook in Ancient Philosophy, New York, 1909, "Fragment 57"
Variant: Strength of body is nobility only in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in man.
Variant: In cattle excellence is displayed in strength of body; but in men it lies in strength of character.
Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012) Korean religious leader
Process of Restoration http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/sunmyungmoon65/SM650213.htm, (1965-02-13)
Abbott Eliot Kittredge (1834–1912) American minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 54.
John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar
Introduction<!--was the Introduction written by John Conington or by the editors?--> to The Aeneid of Virgil (Chicago and New York: Scott Foresman and Company, 1916), p. 45; partially quoted in School and Home Education, Vol. 35 (1916), p. 172
“I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.”
Cato the Elder (-234–-149 BC) politician, writer and economist (0234-0149)
Attributed to Cato in Plutarch, Parallel Lives 19:4 http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0013%3Achapter%3D19. <br class="br">Original Greek: ‘μᾶλλον γὰρ,’ ἔφη, ‘βούλομαι ζητεῖσθαι, διὰ τί μου ἀνδριὰς οὐ κεῖται ἢ διὰ τί κεῖται’
Ann E. Dunwoody (1953) U.S. Army, first four-star general in U.S. military history
Source: A Higher Standard (2015), p. 72
“Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!”
John Gay (1685–1732) English poet and playwright
Lucy, Act II, sc. xiii
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Divinity
Robert LeFevre (1911–1986) American libertarian businessman
As quoted in Facets of Liberty: A Libertarian Primer, L.K. Samuels, editor, Freeland Press and Rampart Institute, Santa Ana: CA, Chap. 5, p. 70
Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1854–1939) American journalist and anarchist
¶ 17
State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree, and Wherin They Differ (1888)
“Make your company a rarity, and people will value it. Men despise what they can easily have.”
James Burgh (1714–1775) British politician
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
Charles Francis Adams (1807–1886) American historical editor, politician and diplomat (1807-1886)
Diary entry (15 April 1836), as quoted in The Travellers' Dictionary of Quotation : Who Said What, About Where? (1983) by Peter Yapp, p. 862.
Julia Gillard (1961) Australian politician and lawyer, 27th Prime Minister of Australia
In Question Time, c. March 2012 <br class="br"> "Labor cleans up after aftermath" http://www.abc.net.au/insiders/content/2012/s3445116.htm, in Insiders (ABC), 4 March 2012
Saddam Hussein (1937–2006) Iraqi politician and President
President Saddam Hussein's Speech on National Day (1981)
John J. Pershing (1860–1948) United States Army general in World War I
My Life Before the World War, 1860--1917: A Memoir, p. 293 https://books.google.com/books?id=a74_JIbehzsC&pg=PA293
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce (1838–1922) British academic, jurist, historian and Liberal politician
Speech in the public baths of Caledonian Road, Islington, London (12 December 1900) against the Boer War, quoted in The Times (13 December 1900), p. 10.
1900s
John Turner (1929) 17th Prime Minister of Canada
1968 Liberal Party Leadership convention speech, April 5, 1968. Turner would, in fact, win the 1984 convention rather than the 1968 one. ( http://ms.radio-canada.ca/archives_new/2006/en/wmv/turner19680405et1.wmv)
Phyllis Schlafly (1924–2016) American activist
Feminists On The Warpath Get Their Man, Phyllis Schlafly Columns, 2007-03-30, Schlafly, Phyllis, 2005-02-16 http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2005/feb05/05-02-16.html,
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) American politician, 19th President of the United States (in office from 1877 to 1881)
Letter to William McKinley (27 December 1892)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
Montesquieu (1689–1755) French social commentator and political thinker
No. 66.
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721)
Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962) American university teacher (1879-1962)
Fischerisms (1944)