Quoted in The Economist, 25 Feb 2012, p. 63
Lea Cohen (1942)
Смятам, че ролята и на журналиста, и на писателя е критичният анализ. Разбира се и писателят, и журналистът плащат съответната цена. <br class="br">Програма Хоризонт, https://bnr.bg/post/101200075, Bulgarian National Radio, December 2019
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2014, Address to European Youth (March 2014)
Context: Of course, neither the United States nor Europe are perfect in adherence to our ideals, nor do we claim to be the sole arbiter of what is right or wrong in the world. We are human, after all, and we face difficult choices about how to exercise our power. But part of what makes us different is that we welcome criticism, just as we welcome the responsibilities that come with global leadership.
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
Winston S. Churchill book The Second World War
In the House of Commons, February 28, 1906 speech South African native races http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1906/feb/28/south-african-native-races#S4V0152P0_19060228_HOC_307 <br class="br">The Second World War (1939–1945) <br class="br">Variant: Where there is great power there is great responsibility <br class="br">Context: I submit respectfully to the House as a general principle that our responsibility in this matter is directly proportionate to our power. Where there is great power there is great responsibility, where there is less power there is less responsibility, and where there is no power there can, I think, be no responsibility.
“What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love?”
David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest
Source: Infinite Jest (1996)
Context: What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love?
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Des Moines Iowa speech (1 February 1916) http://www.combat.ws/S3/BAKISSUE/CMBT01N2/SMOKE.HTM, on "The Westerm Preparedness Tour" http://www.allthingswilliam.com/presidents/wilson.html <br class="br">1910s
“What a terrible price students are paying now for the idea of comfort.”
Alan Charles Kors (1943) American academic
2010s, Who's too Weak to Live with Freedom? (2013)
Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer
The same week I had a big story in Newsweek. In one of the magazines it says I live alone, and the other magazine said I live with Jane Wagner. Unless you were so really adamantly out, and had made some declaration at some press conference, people back then didn't write about your relationship.
Metro Weekly interview (2006)
“No price is too great to pay for inner peace.”
Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) Indian writer and guru
Words of Wisdom (2010)
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
