Source: The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: Volume 1
The Influence of Literature upon Society (1800), Pt. 2, ch. 5
“We must define the political Europe that we want. We must plead for the federal approach.”
Speech in Lorient (29 August 1993), quoted in The Times (30 August 1993), p. 11
President of the European Commission
Speech at a youth rally in Berlin http://der-fuehrer.org/reden/english/34-05-01.htm, 1 May 1934
1930s
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)
1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Context: I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.
“We must be what we are and not what they want us to be.”
Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)
Context: We need to work in a job that we like and always be peaceful people, to do what we like. We must be what we are and not what they want us to be. To love what we love without obligation, without neurotic knots that we cannot untie. To desire what we want and to create what we are capable of making. To live with a certain prosperity, without wasting. But a prosperity for everyone, not a prosperity based on exploiting others. And, of course, it is necessary to become immortals and for this we have to live as if we were immortals thinking that we have a thousand years more to do what we want but without forgetting that in ten seconds we can die.
“We must become the change we want to see.”
“We must not look for some kind of Messiah.”
Robert Harris, "The Making of Neil Kinnock" (Faber and Faber, 1984), pages 157-8.
Explaining to the Bedwellty Constituency Labour Party why he would not vote for Tony Benn in the election for deputy leader (June 19, 1981).
