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British comic actor and filmmaker 1889–1977Related quotes
IV, 20
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV
“There should be some kind of rule against needing to kill anything more than once.”
Source: Grave Peril
Fab. LXV: Of the Sun and Wind, Moral
The Fables of Aesop (2nd ed. 1668)
“We know more than we need to know.”
Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)
Source: Protection or Free Trade? (1886), Ch. 2
Context: The needs of labor require more than kind words, and are not to be satisfied by such soft phrases as we address to a horse when we want to catch him that we may put a bit in his mouth and a saddle on his back. Let me ask those who are disposed to regard protection as favorable to the aspirations of labor, to consider whether it can be true that what labor needs is to be protected?
To admit that labor needs protection is to acknowledge its inferiority; it is to acquiesce in an assumption that degrades the workman to the position of a dependent, and leads logically to the claim that the employee is bound to vote in the interest of the employer who provides him with work.
There is something in the very word "protection" that ought to make workingmen cautious of accepting anything presented to them under it. The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny — the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of special privilege of every kind. The slave owners justified slavery as protecting the slaves.
“The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool!”
Three and—an Extra.
Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)
