Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) American abolitionist, social activist, and poet
What is Religion? (1893)
“Courageous and sacrificial men may use wrong methods or pursue unworthy ends.”
"What is War?" (1924)
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Quiconque est capable de mentir est indigne d'être compté au nombre des hommes; et quiconque ne sait pas se taire est indigne de gouverner.
Bk. 3, p. 14; translation pp. 34-5.
Les aventures de Télémaque (1699)
“Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.”
Wilkie Collins book Man and Wife
Man and Wife - Vol. II [Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1870] ( p. 235 https://books.google.com/books?id=Dp-ZFYLTW6QC&pg=PA235) <br class="br">Also in Wilkie Collins: Man of Mystery and Imagination by Alexander Grinstein [International Universities Press, 2003, 0-823-66681-6] (p. 155)
Francisco Luís Gomes (1829–1869) Indo-Portuguese physician, writer, historian, economist, political scientist and MP in the Portuguese parli…
Le Marquis de Pombal, p. 377
Le marquis de Pombal (1869)
“It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.”
Robert Mugabe (1924–2019) former President of Zimbabwe
"ZAPU deposes Mr. Nkomo as Leader", The Times, 9 July 1962, p. 9
Remarks to the press, 8 July 1962, concerning the future strategy of ZAPU in achieving majority rule.
1960s
“I see the right, and I approve it too,
Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.”
Samuel Garth (1661–1719) British writer
Translation of Ovid, Metamorphoses, vii. 20 (translated by Tate and Stonestreet, edited by Garth), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue" [veggio ’l meglio, et al peggior m’appiglio], Petrarch, Sonnet ccxxv. canzone xxi. To Laura in Life.
Horace Mann (1796–1859) American politician
A Few Thoughts for a Young Man (1850)
Context: Whether a young man shall reap pleasure or pain from winning the objects of his choice, depends, not only upon his wisdom or folly in selecting those objects, but upon the right or wrong methods by which he pursues them. Hence, a knowledge what to select and how to pursue, is as necessary to the highest happiness as virtue herself. Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal. <!-- p. 9
“All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney (1901–1966) American film producer and businessman
Source: How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life (2004), Ch. 3 : Imagination Unlimited, p. 63; Unsourced variant: All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.