“It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.”
Chap 11.
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV
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Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright 1547–1616Related quotes
“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”
Source: Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Source: Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England (1884), p. 32
“The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought.”
Essay, written under the pseudonym "Candidus," in The Boston Gazette (14 October 1771) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2092, later published in The Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams (1865) by William Vincent Wells, p. 425
“Controversy… What Controversy?”
Humorous lines of various advertisements for the film, some showing doctored pictures of Moore walking hand in hand with George W. Bush.
2004, Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
11 November 2018, French>English translation reported by CNN https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/11/politics/donald-trump-armistice-day-paris/index.html
2017, 2018
“Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.”
Ein Widerstand um jeden Preis ist das Sinnloseste, was es geben kann.
Romulus the Great, act III (1956)
Source: Practical Mysticism (1914), Chapter IX, The Third Form Of Contemplation, p. 166