“The time would fail me if I were to recite all the big names in history whose exploits are perfectly irrational and even shocking to the business mind.”
Crabbed Age and Youth.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Context: The time would fail me if I were to recite all the big names in history whose exploits are perfectly irrational and even shocking to the business mind. The incongruity is speaking; and I imagine it must engender among the mediocrities a very peculiar attitude, towards the nobler and showier sides of national life.
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“Why are students learning business from business professors whose businesses failed?”
Christian Canlubo on his twitter https://twitter.com/canlubochris account.
Source: https://twitter.com/canlubochris/status/1236684517823283200 | Christian Canlubo personal Twitter account
“Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches.”
If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso (1923). First published in Vanity Fair.
“The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.”
“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
Homage to Catalonia (1938)
“Even if lives did hang in the balance, it would depend on whose they were.”
Seton Hall Address (2002)
Context: It is customary at occasions such as this for some old person to pass on his accumulated pearls of wisdom and life story to the young.
But this is not a customary year. It is a year marked by distinctive tragedy and challenge, by events that no one at last year’s commencement ceremony could have possibly anticipated. The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon took the lives of so many — Seton Hall graduates among them — and have affected us so deeply that it is impossible to speak here today without acknowledging the witness to tragedy which this University and its students have borne.
These events delivered a four-fold shock to us and our country. The shock of our country, under attack. The shock that others would hate so much that they would kill themselves to hurt us. The shock of death to the youthful and innocent. The shock that the murderers would claim to have acted in the name of God.
Source: The Crimson Petal and the White (2002), Ch. 1