Kamisese Mara (1920–2004) President of Fiji
(Quotes from an interview conducted in 2001, broadcast on Fijian television partially on 30 April 2001, and fully on 29 April 2004).
Kamisese Mara (1920–2004) President of Fiji
(Quotes from an interview conducted in 2001, broadcast on Fijian television partially on 30 April 2001, and fully on 29 April 2004).
“It is difficult suddenly to lay aside a long-standing love.”
Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem.
Gaio Valerio Catullo list of poems by Catullus
LXXVI, line 13
Carmina
Friedrich Kellner (1885–1970) German Justice inspector
“German’s war diary goes public,” Washington Times, UPI News, March 25, 2005.
Attributed
“Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.”
Scott Lynch book The Republic of Thieves
Source: The Republic of Thieves
“To be as good as our fathers we must be better.”
Wendell Phillips (1811–1884) American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer
1880s, The Scholar in a Republic (1881)
John W. Kingdon (1940) American political scientist
Source: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 1, How Does an Idea's Time Come?, p. 1
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Preface, The Sacredness Of Criticism
1930s, On the Rocks (1933)
Context: The last word remains with Christ and Handel; and this must stand as the best defence of Tolerance until a better man than I makes a better job of it.
Put shortly and undramatically the case is that a civilization cannot progress without criticism, and must therefore, to save itself from stagnation and putrefaction, declare impunity for criticism. This means impunity not only for propositions which, however novel, seem interesting, statesmanlike, and respectable, but for propositions that shock the uncritical as obscene, seditious, blasphemous, heretical, and revolutionary.
“Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist