
Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 234
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 407.
Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 234
“Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.”
As quoted in Remains of Mr. Cecil (1836) edited by Josiah Pratt, p. 59.
“Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.”
Richard Cecil, as quoted in Remains of Mr. Cecil (1836) edited by Josiah Pratt, p. 59
Misattributed
“What the enemy allows to us and praises in us, must be bad for us.”
Kriegsführung und Politik (Berlin, 1922), p. 334, quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 114
“In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful.”
Source: A Letter to a Hindu (1908), VII
Johnny Got His Gun (1938)
Context: Put the guns into our hands and we will use them. Give us the slogans and we will turn them into realities. Sing the battle hymns and we will take them up where you left off. Not one, not ten, not ten thousand, not a million, not ten millions, not a hundred millions but a billion, two billions of us all — the people of the world. We will have the slogans and we will have the hymns and we will have the guns and we will use them and we will live. Make no mistake of it, we will live. We will be alive and we will walk and talk and eat and sing and laugh and feel and love and bear our children in tranquillity, in security, in decency, in peace. You plan the wars, you masters of men — plan the wars and point the way and we will point the gun.