Paul after visiting Russian prisoners, Ch. 8
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, The Trumpet of Conscience (1967)
Variant: In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) Irish poet, critic
Interview with Eugene O'Connell 'Cork Literary Review vol xiii 2009
Poetry Quotes
P. W. Botha (1916–2006) South African prime minister
As state president at a parade of the SA Police College, Pretoria, 20 June 1986, as cited in PW Botha in his own words, Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, p. 37
“When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.”
Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer
Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
“Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!”
Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) writer
Source: The Path to Rome (1902), p. xi
Novalis book Blüthenstaub
Fragment No. 2
Blüthenstaub (1798)
Context: Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the universe here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word Liberty entire nations.
George Stanley Faber (1773–1854) British theologian
Here, without all doubt, an act of beneficence is enjoined.
Source: Christ's Discourse at Capernaum: Fatal to the Doctrine of Transubstantiation (1840), pp. 147-149
