“It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.”
Cleveland Press (1 March 1921)
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“Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth. And it happens every few minutes.”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
As quoted in New Musical Express (1991-11-23).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print
“There really wasn’t much in a man’s life that mattered. But those few things mattered terribly.”
Poul Anderson book The Star Fox
Section 3 “Admiralty”, Chapter IX (p. 200)
The Star Fox (1965)
Alice Munro book Runaway
Source: Runaway (2004)
Context: This is what happens. You put it away for a little while, and now and again you look in the closet for something else and you remember, and you think, soon. Then it becomes something that is just there, in the closet, and other things get crowded in front of it and on top of it and finally you don't think about it at all.
The thing that was your bright treasure. You don't think about it. A loss you could not contemplate at one time, and now it becomes something you can barely remember.
This is what happens.
Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
Final lines of his Richard Dimbleby lecture Shaking Hands With Death on euthanasia and assisted suicide, quoted in "Terry Pratchett: my case for a euthanasia tribunal" in The Guardian (2 February 2010) http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/feb/02/terry-pratchett-assisted-suicide-tribunal <br class="br">General sources <br class="br">Context: I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor. If we are to live in a world where a socially acceptable "early death" can be allowed, it must be allowed as a result of careful consideration.<br>Let us consider me as a test case. As I have said, I would like to die peacefully with Thomas Tallis on my iPod before the disease takes me over and I hope that will not be for quite some time to come, because if I knew that I could die at any time I wanted, then suddenly every day would be as precious as a million pounds. If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.
Kanan Makiya (1949) American orientalist
"Kanan Makiya speaks about Iraq 5 years later...", Washington Post (March 20, 2008)
Vince Cable (1943) British Liberal Democrat politician
Sir Vince Cable: Governments assume public are 'pretty bigoted' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43941383, BBC News, 29 April 2018 <br class="br">2018
“You should stop asking your politicians how they’re gonna do it.”
Rahul Gandhi (1970) Indian politician
Firstpost, First Post http://www.firstpost.com/india/dont-us-politicians-ask-yourself-what-you-can-do-for-india-rahul-606481.html Gujarat Congress http://gujaratcongress.org/english/2013/02/rahul-gandhi-urges-youth-to-contribute-to-india%E2%80%99s-growth/ Rahul Gandhi http://my.fakingnews.firstpost.com/politics/inspiration-behind-rahul-gandhis-famous-quotes-5528