Source: The Giver
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 591.
"Happy Easter" (5 April 2007) https://youtube.com/watch?v=RCPwdfQyxe4
2007
“Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.”
Torvald Helmer, Act I
A Doll's House (1879)
“He who fight monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.”
Variant: A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.
Source: Scorpia Rising
All the King's Men (1946)
"The voice of the lonely crowd" (2002)
Source: The Second Plane: 14 Responses to September 11
Context: The 20th century, with its scores of millions of supernumerary dead, has been called the age of ideology. And the age of ideology, clearly, was a mere hiatus in the age of religion, which shows no sign of expiry. Since it is no longer permissible to disparage any single faith or creed, let us start disparaging all of them. To be clear: an ideology is a belief system with an inadequate basis in reality; a religion is a belief system with no basis in reality whatever. Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful. It is straightforward — and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.
Address at the launching of the Mabuhay Ang Pilipino Movement, Malacañang (30 November 1972)
1965
