Remarks to Count Ciano (11 January 1939) after meeting Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax, quoted in Malcolm Muggeridge (ed.), Ciano's Diary, 1939–1943 (1947), pp. 9–10
1930s
Source: (1776), Book V, Chapter II, Part II, p. 896.
Ibid., p. 121
The Book of Disquiet
Original: O império supremo é o do Imperador que abdica de toda a vida normal, dos outros homens, em quem o cuidado da supremacia não pesa como um fardo de jóias.
Alan Watts Blues
Song lyrics, Poetic Champions Compose (1987)
“Empirically speaking, we are made of star stuff. Why aren’t we talking more about that?”
Source: The Argonauts
Si tous sont destinés en naissant à souffrir la violence, c'est là une vérité à laquelle l'empire des circonstances ferme les esprits des hommes.
in The Simone Weil Reader, p. 163
Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Iliad or The Poem of Force (1940-1941)
"The Coming American" (July 4, 1894), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
A History of the American People (1902), describing the Klan as a brotherhood of politically disenfranchised white men; famously quoted in The Birth of a Nation (1915)
1900s
“Different men are made of different stuff.”
La Sorellina di Pilone (1712), Act V., Sc. XVI. — (Burino.)
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 425.
“It is exactly this men’s health void that creates your son’s men’s health opportunity.”
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 300
