Attributed to Kronrod in: Landis, E. M., Yaglom, I. M., Remembering AS Kronrod, The Mathematical Intelligencer 24.1 (2002) p. 22-30
1820s, Signs of the Times (1829)
Google shows that the internet often attributes this statement to Einstein, but never with a source. It does not occur in any book in Google Books.
Misattributed
“Laws are for nothing if there is no mechanism to implement them.”
appeal in Croatian Parliament, 27 September 2017, qouted in HINA/Jutarnji.hr. ŽELJKO GLASNOVIĆ U SABORU NIJE BIRAO RIJEČI 'Strijeljao bih jednog suca, ali nažalost, ne možemo. Još nemamo takvu državu https://www.jutarnji.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/zeljko-glasnovic-u-saboru-nije-birao-rijeci-strijeljao-bih-jednog-suca-ali-nazalost-ne-mozemo-jos-nemamo-takvu-drzavu/6575319/ Jutarnji list, 2017-09-22. Retrived 2018-02-10.
Qoutes
Source: I am a mathematician, the later life of a prodigy (1953), p. 322; Cited in: Walter F. Buckley (1967) Sociology and modern systems theory. p. 82
1960s, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)
Context: Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change. … Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly. You see, what happened is that some of our philosophers got off base. And one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites — polar opposites — so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love.
It was this misinterpretation that caused Nietzsche, who was a philosopher of the will to power, to reject the Christian concept of love. It was this same misinterpretation which induced Christian theologians to reject the Nietzschean philosophy of the will to power in the name of the Christian idea of love. Now, we've got to get this thing right. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. And this is what we must see as we move on. What has happened is that we have had it wrong and confused in our own country, and this has led Negro Americans in the past to seek their goals through power devoid of love and conscience.
This is leading a few extremists today to advocate for Negroes the same destructive and conscienceless power that they have justly abhorred in whites. It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.
RFC 791 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0791.txt, Internet Protocol (September 1981)
Often shortened to Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send.
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”
Source: Great Expectations (1860-1861), Ch. 40
“He investigates nothing to its source, and therefore he confounds everything”
Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)
Context: To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin. In doing this we shall easily discover that governments must have arisen either out of the people or over the people. Mr. Burke has made no distinction. He investigates nothing to its source, and therefore he confounds everything; but he has signified his intention of undertaking, at some future opportunity, a comparison between the constitution of England and France. As he thus renders it a subject of controversy by throwing the gauntlet, I take him upon his own ground. It is in high challenges that high truths have the right of appearing; and I accept it with the more readiness because it affords me, at the same time, an opportunity of pursuing the subject with respect to governments arising out of society.
