Lawrence M. Schoen (1959) American writer and klingonist
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 17, “Dead Voices” (p. 171)
Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)
Lawrence M. Schoen (1959) American writer and klingonist
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 17, “Dead Voices” (p. 171)
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
Also quoted in Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future: tributes and speeches (2003), edited by Kader Asmal & David Chidester. Jonathan Ball, p. 332
1990s, Speech at the Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference (1992)
Context: Yes! We affirm it and we shall proclaim it from the mountaintops, that all people – be they black or white, be they brown or yellow, be they rich or poor, be they wise or fools, are created in the image of the Creator and are his children! Those who dare to cast out from the human family people of a darker hue with their racism! Those who exclude from the sight of God's grace, people who profess another faith with their religious intolerance! Those who wish to keep their fellow countrymen away from God's bounty with forced removals! Those who have driven away from the altar of God people whom He has chosen to make different, commit an ugly sin! The sin called Apartheid.
Alex Haley (1921–1992) African American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist
TIME interview (1977)
Context: Have family reunions. There is something magic about the common sense of a blood bond. It's not less magic for black, white, brown or polka dot. The reunion gives a sense that the family cares about itself and is proud of itself. And there is the assumption that you, the family member, are obligated to reflect this pride and, if possible, add to it.
Zakir Hussain (politician) (1897–1969) 3rd President of India
Source: Uniqueness of Zakir Husain and His Contributions (1997), p. 25.
“When I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!”
Hermann Göring (1893–1946) German politician and military leader
"When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver" was also is used in the 1981 Cannes Film Festival Award winner Mephisto spoken by a character known as "The General" in the English dubbed version.
Misattributed
Variant: "When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver." Often attributed to Göring, who might have used such lines, these statements are derived from those in the play Schlageter by Hanns Johst: "Wenn ich Kultur höre … entsichere ich meinen Browning!" [Whenever I hear of culture... I release the safety-catch of my Browning!] (Act 1, Scene 1) The play was first performed in April 1933 for Hitler's birthday. Reported as a misattribution in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 36.
Evelyn Waugh book Brideshead Revisited
This quotes The Queer Feet http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books/Complete_Father_Brown/chapter3.html by G. K. Chesterton <br class="br">Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Otto Neurath (1882–1945) austrian economist, philosopher and sociologist
Otto Neurath (1983) "The orchestration of the sciences by the encyclopedism of logical empiricism." In R. S. Cohen, M. Neurath, & C. R. Fawcett (Eds.), Otto Neurath: Philosophical papers, 1913–1946 (pp. 230–242). Boston: Riedel. (First published 1946); p. 239
1940s and later
“Nothing is so beautiful as Spring—
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush”
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
" Spring http://www.bartleby.com/122/9.html", stanza 1 <br class="br">Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918) <br class="br">Context: Nothing is so beautiful as Spring—<br>When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;<br>Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush<br>Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring<br>The ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
“Whenever I hear of culture … I release the safety catch of my Browning!”
Hanns Johst (1890–1978) German general
Wenn ich Kultur höre … entsichere ich meinen Browning!
Schlageter