“Brother men who after us live on,
Harden not your hearts against us.”
Francois Villon (1431–1463) Mediæval French poet
Freres humains qui après nous vivez,
N'avez les cuers contre nous endurcis.
"L'Epitaphe Villon (Villon's Epitaph)", or "Ballade des Pendus (Ballade of the Hanged)", line 1. (1463).
Alan Keyes (1950) American politician
Speech at McKay Events Center in Orem, Utah, September 22, 2000. http://renewamerica.us/archives/speeches/00_09_22mckay.htm. <br class="br">2000
“Sometimes doing the gods’ bidding required a hardened heart.”
Tad Williams (1957) novelist
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 4, “The Silent Child” (p. 145).
“The hearts of the rich are hardened. The existence of the poor is a reproach to them.”
Murray Leinster book The Pirates of Zan
Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 7
Theodore Zeldin (1933) English academic
An Intimate History of Humanity (1994)
Context: Even Gandhi, with all his charisma, did not "melt the hearts" of his oppressors, as he had hoped. After softening, hearts harden again. Asoka too was wrong to think that he was changing the course of history, and that his righteousness would last "as long as the sun and the moon."
Muhammad al-Mahdi (869–941) 12th and last Imam in Twelver Shia Islam
al-Tabarsi, al-Ihtijāj, Ch.2, p. 478
Religious-based Quotes
Gordon Latto (doctor) (1911–1998)
Speech at the 24th International Vegetarian Congress, India, 1977; quoted in The Vegetarians by Rynn Berry (Autumn Press, 1979), pp. 133-134.
