Ralph Nader (1934) American consumer rights activist and corporate critic
"American Mythology and the Loss of Democracy" (2018)
Source: The Garden That I Love (1894), p. 117.
Ralph Nader (1934) American consumer rights activist and corporate critic
"American Mythology and the Loss of Democracy" (2018)
“[E]ven a great man cannot be wise in everything.”
Allen C. Guelzo (1953) American historian
2010s, The Bicentennial Lincolns (2010)
“He's as great a master of ill language as ever was bred at a Bear-Garden.”
Ned Ward (1667–1731) English writer
Source: London Terraefilius, No. 3, p. 29, (1707).
Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)
State of the Art (2000)
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
The Philosopher
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XI - Cash and Credit
“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.”
John Ruskin book Modern Painters
Volume IV, part V, chapter III, section 22 (1856).
Modern Painters (1843-1860)
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Said to Enver Hoxha, on his visit to China in 1956, as quoted in Hoxha's (1986) The Artful Albanian, (Chatto & Windus, London), ISBN 0701129700
“Misplaced paranoia could be as great a mistake as misplaced faith.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Cryoburn (2010), Chapter 5 (p. 99)
“Solomon made a great mistake when he asked for wisdom.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)