“Neoconservatives are the boat people of the McGovern revolution.”
2000s, Where the Right Went Wrong (2004)
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American politician and commentator 1938Related quotes
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist
Interview with Oriana Fallaci (2 December 1979), Corriere della Sera
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“The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.”
Paulo Coelho book The Pilgrimage
Source: The Pilgrimage
“Every boat is copied from another boat…”
Alain (1868–1951) French philosopher
Propos d’un Normand (1908); as quoted in "Natural selection and cultural rates of change" by D. S. Rogers and P. R. Ehrlich (2008) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105:3416–3420
Context: Every boat is copied from another boat... Let’s reason as follows in the manner of Darwin. It is clear that a very badly made boat will end up at the bottom after one or two voyages, and thus never be copied... One could then say, with complete rigor, that it is the sea herself who fashions the boats, choosing those which function and destroying the others.
“A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.”
Katie Couric (1957) American journalist
Source: The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives
Fidel Castro (1926–2016) former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba
Original Spanish: "Compañeros obreros y campesinos, esta es la Revolución socialista y democrática de los humildes, con los humildes y para los humildes. Y por esta Revolución de los humildes, por los humildes y para los humildes estamos dispuestos a dar la vida."
On 16 April 1961, in a funeral oration in Vedado for victims of the air raids the day before, Fidel Castro referring to the January 1959 Cuban Revolution. Quoted in José Ramón Fernández. 2001. Playa Giron/Bay of Pigs: Washington's First Military Defeat in the Americas, p. 56
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
1810s, What do we mean by the American Revolution? (1818)
Context: The American Revolution was not a common event. Its effects and consequences have already been awful over a great part of the globe. And when and where are they to cease?
But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. … This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.
Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
"Live" with Thomas Sowell https://www.aei.org/publication/live-thomas-sowell/, The American Enterprise, September 2004. <br class="br">2000s
“Pete and Repeat are in a boat, Pete jumps out who's left in the boat?”
Phil Brooks (1978) American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
Ghost Hunters. October 31, 2006.
The children's joke Pete and Repeat.
Ghost Hunters