Daniel Barenboim (1942) Israeli Argentine-born pianist and conductor
SPIEGEL Interview with Daniel Barenboim
spoken on the Diane Rehm Show.
Post-Presidency
Daniel Barenboim (1942) Israeli Argentine-born pianist and conductor
SPIEGEL Interview with Daniel Barenboim
Gerald Kaufman (1930–2017) British politician
That was the reply of a Nazi. I suppose the Jews fighting for their lives in the Warsaw Ghetto could have been dismissed as militants.
Speech to the House of Commons, Jan 2009
Joseph Massad (1963) Associate Professor of Arab Studies
Ibid.
"Palestinians and Jewish History: Recognition or Submission?"
Isaac de Benserade (1613–1691) French writer
Théâtre des ris et des pleurs
Lit! où je nais, et où je meurs,
Tu nous fais voir comment voisins
Sont nos plaisirs et chagrins.
Translated by Samuel Johnson, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Paul Blobel (1894–1951) German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator
Quoted in "The Eichmann Kommandos" - Page 153 - by Michael Angelo Musmanno - 1961.
“… and we are in bed together
laughing
and we don’t care
about anything.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
“It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.”
Randy Pausch (1960–2008) American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design
CMU Graduation speech (2008)
Context: It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not. I assure you I've done a lot of really stupid things, and none of them bother me. All the mistakes, and all the dopey things, and all the times I was embarrassed — they don't matter. What matters is that I can kind of look back and say: Pretty much any time I got chance to do something cool I tried to grab for it — and that's where my solace comes from.
Joseph Massad (1963) Associate Professor of Arab Studies
Ibid.
"The Ends of Zionism: Racism and the Palestinian Struggle"