Leo Strauss (1899–1973) Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservativism
Source: Natural Right and History (1953), p. 116
Leo Strauss (1899–1973) Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservativism
Source: Natural Right and History (1953), p. 116
“Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere.”
Allan Boesak (1946) South African anti-apartheid activist
As long as one person suffers unjustly, the whole world suffers. The existence of injustice, violence, and exploitation contaminates and diminishes the whole human community.
Source: Comfort and Protest (1987), p. 66
“[T]here is more to be learned at the foot of the cross than anywhere else in the world.”
J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop
"What Think You of the Cross?", p. 284
Startling Questions (1853)
Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) Marxist revolutionary from Russia
During a 1921 meeting with American businessman Armand Hammer, as quoted in Hammer: Witness to History by Hammer and Neil Lyndon (1988), p. 160
Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929) French politician
Actually said by Charles de Gaulle, on leaving his presidency, Life, May 9, 1969.
Misattributed
Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) eighteenth President of the French Republic
Attributed to de Gaulle by Romain Gary, Life, May 9, 1969
Fifth Republic and other post-WW2
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Actually said by Charles de Gaulle, on leaving his presidency, as quoted inLife' (9 May 1969)
Misattributed
Aung San Suu Kyi (1945) State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy
In Quest of Democracy (1991)
“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.”
Len Wein (1948–2017) American comic book writer and editor
Quoted in "1001 Affirmations" - by Herbert P. Windschitl - Poetry - 2003