Source: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 53, “We Margarets Walk” (p. 502)
“The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real.”
As quoted in The Times [London] (27 June 1955)
Context: The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the UN and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right — you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
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“She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
2010s, American Contempt for Liberty (2015)

After receiving a humanitarian award from Motion Picture Academy in 1968, as quoted in "Gregory Peck - the 'decent man of Hollywood'" by Richard Alleyne in 'The Telegraph (13 June 2003) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1432914/Gregory-Peck---the-decent-man-of-Hollywood.html
“Do not speak harshly of your misfortunes to anyone, for everyone is partly to blame.”
No hables mal de tus males a nadie, que hay culpas de tus males en todos.
Voces (1943)

short quotes, 3 April 1972; p. 86
1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)

“Is this just math that you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better. or is this real?”
Election coverage, Fox News, , to Karl Rove in response to his citing of unreported counties after Fox News declared Barack Obama had taken Ohio in the 2012 U.S. presidential election
Quoted in Felix Gillette, "Welcome to My Living Room, Thank You for Spinning" http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-06/welcome-to-my-living-room-thank-you-for-spinning, BusinessWeek.com,