
“I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.”
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1974/dec/18/the-economy in the House of Commons (18 December 1974)
1970s
“I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.”
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.”
Of the fact that she never married; quoted in Associated Press obituary.
'Tories in the Wilderness', The Sunday Telegraph (18 October 1964), quoted in Paul Corthorn, Enoch Powell: Politics and Ideas in Modern Britain (2019), p. 79
1960s
“Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.”
Book IV, Chapter X.
Crowds (1913)
“Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.”
Source: [John, Tobler, 1992, NME Rock 'N' Roll Years, 1st, Reed International Books Ltd, London, 303, CN 5585]
“I admit that my visions can never mean to other men as much as they do to me.”
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 66.
Context: I admit that my visions can never mean to other men as much as they do to me. I do not regret this. All I ask is that my results should convince seekers after truth that there is beyond doubt something worth while seeking, attainable by methods more or less like mine. I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics, or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.
“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.”
Maxim 1070
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave