Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), The Present Time (February 1, 1850)
“The lazy and the foolish compare him to Hemingway, which is a terrible injustice as Jim is both a better writer and a better man.”
On novelist and poet Jim Harrison
Medium Raw (2010)
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
"How Not To Better Social Conditions" in Review of Reviews (January 1897), p. 39
1890s
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, How Long, Not Long (1965)
Context: If it may be said of the slavery era that the white man took the world and gave the Negro Jesus, then it may be said of the Reconstruction era that the southern aristocracy took the world and gave the poor white man Jim Crow. He gave him Jim Crow. And when his wrinkled stomach cried out for the food that his empty pockets could not provide, he ate Jim Crow, a psychological bird that told him that no matter how bad off he was, at least he was a white man, better than the black man. And he ate Jim Crow. And when his undernourished children cried out for the necessities that his low wages could not provide, he showed them the Jim Crow signs on the buses and in the stores, on the streets and in the public buildings. And his children, too, learned to feed upon Jim Crow, their last outpost of psychological oblivion. Thus, the threat of the free exercise of the ballot by the Negro and the white masses alike resulted in the establishment of a segregated society. They segregated southern money from the poor whites; they segregated southern mores from the rich whites; they segregated southern churches from Christianity; they segregated southern minds from honest thinking; and they segregated the Negro from everything. That’s what happened when the Negro and white masses of the South threatened to unite and build a great society: a society of justice where none would pray upon the weakness of others; a society of plenty where greed and poverty would be done away; a society of brotherhood where every man would respect the dignity and worth of human personality.
John Middleton Murry (1889–1957) English writer (1889–1957)
As quoted in Centering (1989) by M. C. Richards
“Good writers indulge their audience; great writers know better.”
Tom Heehler American author
The Well-Spoken Thesaurus (2011)
III. 108–110 (tr. Richmond Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!”
Brian W. Aldiss book Hothouse
Source: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 18
Jean de La Bruyère book Les Caractères
À mesure que la faveur et les grands biens se retirent d'un homme, ils laissent voir en lui le ridicule qu'ils couvraient, et qui y était sans que personne s'en aperçût.
Aphorism 4
Les Caractères (1688), Des biens de fortune
“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
As quoted in "Wisdom of a forefather" https://web.archive.org/web/20100716212616/http://www.today.colostate.edu/story.aspx?id=546 (11 February 2009), Colorado State University. <br class="br">Posthumous attributions