“Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me?”
“As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways.”
Original text: Quant à moi, je suis profondément démocrate, c'est pour cela que je ne suis nullement socialiste. La démocratie et le socialisme ne peuvent pas marcher ensemble. Qui veut l'un ne veut pas l'autre.
Notes for a Speech on Socialism (1848).
1840s
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As quoted in R.v.R. : Being an Account of the Last Years and the Death of One Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn (1930) by Hendrik Willem van Loon
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Statements at trial http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Transcript_of_the_closed_trial_of_Nicolae_and_Elena_Ceau%C5%9Fescu (25 December 1989), in response to being asked who wrote her scientific papers
“People have doubted me and criticized me my whole life, and that's why I'm the way I am.”
Nancy Gay (October 26, 2000) "The Many Moods of Owens - Why talented receiver does things his own way", San Francisco Chronicle, p. C1.
Denis Mack Smith, Mussolini: A Biography (1983) p. 8. As quoted by Mussolini after he was expelled from the Italian Socialist Party in 1914.
1910s
“One can't
have it
both ways
and both
ways is
the only
way I
want it.”
Message to his daughter Camera, p. 341
Days of Grace: A Memoir (1994)
“I think we have established in so many ways that I am hot enough for the both of us”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire