Dreams and Facts (1919)
1910s
“The man who has graduated from the flogging block at Eton to the bench from which he sentences the garrotter to be flogged is the same social product as the garrotter who has been kicked by his father and cuffed by his mother until he has grown strong enough to throttle and rob the rich citizen whose money he desires.”
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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
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George Bernard Shaw 413
Irish playwright 1856–1950Related quotes
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
Source: The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912), Ch. XVI : The Original Sources of the Knowledge of God, p. 237.
Context: I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children; who has undertaken to cherish it and do it no damage, not because he is duty-bound, but because he loves the world and loves his children; whose work serves the earth he lives on and from and with, and is therefore pleasurable and meaningful and unending; whose rewards are not deferred until "retirement," but arrive daily and seasonally out of the details of the life of their place; whose goal is the continuance of the life of the world, which for a while animates and contains them, and which they know they can never compass with their understanding or desire.
The Unforeseen Wilderness : An Essay on Kentucky's Red River Gorge (1971), p. 33; what is likely a paraphrase of a portion of this has existed since at least 1997, and has sometimes become misattributed to John James Audubon: A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 106.
198 U.S. at 79.
1900s, Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905)
“It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.”
Billy Budd
Billy Budd (1962)