Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), Chapter 2 (p. 15)
“By 1956, out of all the Cultural Avatars and Vectors available in 1950, THE GIRL had won. Authority. (And they had it, those girls; no one today has it.) They’d won the war, in a way.”
My Pilgrim’s Progress (1999)
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“A girl's affections should never be won unsought.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XVI : The Warning of Experience; Mrs. Maxwell to Helen
Napoleon Hill
(1883–1970) American author
Power of the Master Mind
Source: Think & Grow Rich, January 1963, p. 152.
“If we had fifty Eichmann's, we would have won the war.”
Heinrich Müller
(1900–1945) German police official and head of the Gestapo
About Adolf Eichmann's devotion. Quoted in "And the Crooked Shall be Made Straight" - Page 37 - by Jacob Robinson - Jews - 1965
“If we had fifty Eichmanns, we would have won the war.”
Adolf Eichmann
(1906–1962) German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer
Heinrich Müller, about Adolf Eichmann's devotion. Quoted in "And the Crooked Shall be Made Straight" by Jacob Robinson - Jews (1965), page 37.
Source: Way Station (1963), Ch. 25
Context: That had not been the first time nor had it been the last, but all the years of killing boiled down in essence to that single moment — not the time that came after, but that long and terrible instant when he had watched the lines of men purposefully striding up the slope to kill him.
It had been in that moment that he had realized the insanity of war, the futile gesture that in time became all but meaningless, the unreasoning rage that must be nursed long beyond the memory of the incident that had caused the rage, the sheer illogic that one man, by death or misery, might prove a right or uphold a principle.
Somewhere, he thought, on the long backtrack of history, the human race had accepted an insanity for a principle and had persisted in it until today that insanity-turned-principle stood ready to wipe out, if not the race itself, at least all of those things, both material and immaterial, that had been fashioned as symbols of humanity through many hard-won centuries.
Mort Sahl
(1927–2021) American comedian and actor
Relationships
Source: the last word - The Sexes http://home.comcast.net/~ghaff/lword/sexes.html
“A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.”
Eric Hoffer
(1898–1983) American philosopher
Source: Reflections on the Human Condition (1973), p. 127
“we've won the war. Now you have to lead us out of it.”
Ulysses S. Grant
(1822–1885) 18th President of the United States
To Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Lincoln.html (2012)
In fiction, Lincoln (2012)
“Girls wanting a night out may be all right elsewhere but it is not part of Indian culture.”
Mahesh Sharma
(1959) Indian politician
As quoted in " Girls Night Out Against Indian Culture: Union Culture Minister http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/Girls-Night-Out-Against-Indian-Culture-Union-Culture-Minister/2015/09/19/article3035994.ece" The New Indian Express (19 September 2015)