“Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.”
Walter Kirn (1962) American novelist
Source: Beyond Hypocrisy, 1992, Doublespeak Dictionary (within Beyond Hypocrisy), p. 124.
“Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.”
Walter Kirn (1962) American novelist
“I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I sacrifice myself for everyone.”
Silvio Berlusconi (1936) Italian politician
At the launch of his 2006 campaign, as quoted in "In quotes: Berlusconi in his own words" at BBC News (2 May 2006) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3041288.stm, and "Did I say This? in The Observer (20 April 2008) http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/apr/20/italy <br class="br">2006
Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) American photographer
Quoted in Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity, 2002.
Referring to Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host
Glenn Beck
Television
Fox News
2010-07-13
00:06:00
Glenn Beck: Jews Killed Jesus
2010-07-13
Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/15/glenn-beck-jews-killed-je_n_648134.html
2010s, 2010
“The Christ is Jesus and the negation of Jesus.”
Paul Tillich (1886–1965) German-American theologian and philosopher
Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality (1955), p. 80
Context: Against Pascal I say: The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the God of the philosophers is the same God. He is a person and the negation of himself as a person.
Faith comprises both itself and the doubt of itself. The Christ is Jesus and the negation of Jesus.
“Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ’s body.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“Christ,” p. 106
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Is It Possible to Write a Poem”
Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) British academic historian and Marxist historiographer
How To Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism (2011)
Thomas Szasz (1920–2012) Hungarian psychiatrist
Source: The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement (1997), p. 161.
“Jesus Christ was the greatest republican.”
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)