“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
Letter to A. F. Oeser (9 November 1768), Early and miscellaneous letters of J. W. Goethe, including letters to his mother. With notes and a short biography (1884)
“Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.”
Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer
George F. Kennan (1904–2005) American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian
Lecture at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (March 1954); published in “The Two Planes of International Reality” in Realities of American Foreign Policy (1954), p. 4
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Sparks
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
Context: Everything matters more than we think it does, and, at the same time, nothing matters so much as we think it does. The merest spark may set all Europe in a blaze, but though all Europe be set in a blaze twenty times over, the world will wag itself right again.
“Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.”
Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
Bogeyman Economics
1980s–1990s, Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays (1987)
Source: Compassion Versus Guilt, and Other Essays: And Other Essays
Salman al-Ouda (1956) journalist
Reported by Eilaph on 30 April 2016, citing an interview in a Swedish newspaper. http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Saudi-cleric-Homosexuality-not-a-deviation-from-Islam-should-not-be-punished-452957 <br class="br">2016
