Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)
“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.”
My Study Windows (1871)
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James Russell Lowell 175
American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat 1819–1891Related quotes
“For it would be indeed a foolish plan,
Two living men to lose for one dead man.”
Che sarebbe pensier non troppo accorto,
Perder duo vivi per salvar un morto.
Canto XVIII, stanza 189 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government”
Abraham Lincoln
(1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Speech at a Republican Banquet, Chicago, Illinois, December 10, 1856 http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln2/1:413?rgn=div1;view=fulltext; see Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 2 (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953), p. 532
1850s
Context: Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.
Abraham Lincoln
(1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Source: Speech at a Republican Banquet, Chicago, Illinois, December 10, 1856 http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln2/1:413?rgn=div1;view=fulltext; see Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 2 (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953), p. 532
Thomas Paine
(1737–1809) English and American political activist
1790s, First Principles of Government (1795)
Context: It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once. Time and reason must cooperate with each other to the final establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to be first convinced have not a right to persecute others, on whom conviction operates more slowly. The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy.
Peter Agre
(1949) American chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Peter Agre's speech at the Nobel Banquet http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2003/agre-speech-e.html, December 10, 2003
Octavio Paz
(1914–1998) Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature
Source: The Monkey Grammarian (1974), Ch. 2
Context: Fixity is always momentary. It is an equilibrium, at once precarious and perfect, that lasts the space of an instant: a flickering of the light, the appearance of a cloud, or a slight change in temperature is enough to break the repose-pact and unleash the series of metamorphoses. Each metamorphosis, in turn, is another moment of fixity succeeded by another change and another unexpected equilibrium. No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there. No one is alone and nothing is solid: change is comprised of fixities that are momentary accords.