Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Conclusion, Part Second, II
Napoleon the Little (1852)
“Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do or die”
Misquote of the lines "Theirs not to reason why, / theirs but to do and die" from The Charge of the Light Brigade
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade
St. 2
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)
Context: "Forward, the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Some one had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of death
Rode the six hundred.
John Keble book The Christian Year
The Christian Year. Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“There is a reason God limits our days.'
'Why?'
'To make each one precious.”
Mitch Albom (1958) American author
Variant: There is a reason God limits man's days.
Source: The Time Keeper
Nigel Calder (1931–2014) British science writer
Interview for InConversation http://www.abc.net.au/rn/inconversation/stories/2007/1998485.htm (16 August 2007), by Robyn Williams, Australian Broadcasting Corporation <br class="br">Context: One of my complaints is that you've got far more scientists than ever before but the pace of discovery has not increased. Why? Because they're all busy just filling in the details of what they think is the standard story. And the youngsters, the people with different ideas have just as big a fight as ever and normally it takes decades for science to correct itself. But science does correct itself and that's the reason why science is such a glorious thing for our species.
“why do our enemies shape us more than our friends?”
Rafik Schami (1946) German writer
Source: The Dark Side of Love
Bertram Raven (1926) American psychologist
So it was important that we were ordered to do meaningless things, and learn to obey legitimate authority without question, while coercive power was still hovering in the background.
Source: "Influence, Power, Religion, and the Mechanisms of Social Control," 1999, p. 176, as cited in: Rick Houser et al. Gaining Power and Control Through Diversity and Group Affiliation, 2004, p. 12
Robert Wilkie (1962) 10th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Exclusive — Robert Wilkie: Democrats Want to Rewrite VA Motto to Remove Language from Lincoln’s Second Inaugural https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2021/05/31/va-robert-wilkie-abraham-lincoln-second-inaugural-veterans-affairs/ (31 May 2021)
