Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, Cobo Center speech (1963)
“Whoever lives as he sees fit will not die as he sees fit.”
Me & Rumi (2004)
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1185-1248, spiritual instructor of Mewlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muh… 1185–1248Related quotes
“A man who does not have something for which he is willing to die is not fit to live.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“Just call in at the torturer on your way out. See when he can fit you in.”
Terry Pratchett book Wyrd Sisters
Source: Wyrd Sisters
“A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Variant: If a man hasn’t found something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
Source: The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
“We have tried to fit man into abstraction, but he does not fit.”
Mark Tobey (1890–1976) American abstract expressionist painter
Statement in his Bahai lecture, Oct 30, 1951, as quoted in Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, W.C, Seitz, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1983, p. 104
1950's
“You see they'd have fitted him to a T.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
1784
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
Tel homme qui dans un excès de mélancolie se tue aujourd’hui aimerait à vivre s’il attendait huit jours. <br class="br"> "Cato" http://www.voltaire-integral.com/Html/18/caton.htm (1764) <br class="br">Citas, Dictionnaire philosophique (1764)
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country. ~ Horace in Odes, Book 3, Ode 2, Line 13, as translated in The Works of Horace by J. C. Elgood
Notes on the Next War (1935)