
“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak, but they are the instruments of the wise.”
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak, but they are the instruments of the wise.”
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Message to the Inter-American Economic and Social Conference at Punta del Este, Uruguay (5 August 1961) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=8271
1961
George Boole, quoted in Kenneth E. Iverson's 1979 Turing Award Lecture
Attributed from posthumous publications
Radio address (11 April 1955); as quoted in The World's Great Speeches (1999) edited by Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, and Stephen J. McKenna
“The intelligence required for the solving of social problems is not a thing of the mere intellect.”
Source: Social Problems (1883), Ch. 1 : The Increasing Importance of Social Questions
Context: The intelligence required for the solving of social problems is not a thing of the mere intellect. It must be animated with the religious sentiment and warm with sympathy for human suffering. It must stretch out beyond self-interest, whether it be the self-interest of the few or of the many. It must seek justice. For at the bottom of every social problem we will find a social wrong.
1950s, The First and Last Freedom (1954)
“An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects”
“The present moment is ever the critical time. The future is merely for intelligent forethought.”
"The Siamese Twin of a Bomb Thrower" from The Triumphs of Euguene Valmont (1906)
"Women, the Arts, & the Politics of Culture: An Interview with Susan Sontag" in Salmagundi, No. 31-32 (Fall/Winter 1975), p. 29; later published in Conversations with Susan Sontag (1995) edited by Leland A. Poague, p. 77