“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
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Partisanship
“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
“The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.”
J. William Fulbright (1905–1995) American politician
"The Vietnam Fallout," speech to the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Association, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City (April 28, 1966), in Senator Fulbright: Portrait of a Public Philosopher (1966)
“We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.”
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“And the food for the soul passes, candid and free, without paying tribute to the customs.”
Juan Ramón Jimenéz (1881–1958) Spanish poet
Source: Platero and I (1917), Ch. 2 : White Butterflies, as translated by Eloïse Roach (1957).
Context: The man wants to stick his iron pick in the little basket, and I do not prevent him. I open the knapsack, and he sees nothing in it. And the food for the soul passes, candid and free, without paying tribute to the customs.
“Don’t pay any attention to what she says. Half of it’s always wrong and she doesn’t mean the rest.”
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author
The Menace from Earth (p. 351)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903) British politician
Source: Letter to Benjamin Disraeli (16 July 1875), quoted in Marvin Swartz, Politics of British Foreign Policy in the Era of Disraeli and Gladstone (1985), p. 17
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) 10th Prime Minister of India
Extract from Suo Motto statement made in the Parliament, after India’s underground nuclear tests conducted on 11 May 1998.[Sujata K. Dass, Atal Bihari Vajpayee: Prime Minister of India, http://books.google.com/books?id=N8wnA7EtB0IC, 1 January 2004, Gyan Publishing House, 978-81-7835-277-0, 39]
Isaac H. Bromley (1833–1899) American newspaper editor
Editorial in New York Tribune (Feb. 16, 1877).
“This is a day of great events. We can pay tribute to our State President and to our Republic.”
Hendrik Verwoerd (1901–1966) Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2013, Brandenburg Gate Speech (June 2013)
Context: The wall belongs to history. But we have history to make as well. And the heroes that came before us now call to us to live up to those highest ideals -- to care for the young people who can't find a job in our own countries, and the girls who aren't allowed to go to school overseas; to be vigilant in safeguarding our own freedoms, but also to extend a hand to those who are reaching for freedom abroad. This is the lesson of the ages. This is the spirit of Berlin. And the greatest tribute that we can pay to those who came before us is by carrying on their work to pursue peace and justice not only in our countries but for all mankind.