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“The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.”

Hannah Arendt book The Life of the Mind

Source: The Life of the Mind (1978), "Thinking".

“The United States has broken the second rule of war. That is: don't go fighting with your land army on the mainland in Asia. Rule One is, don't march on Moscow. I developed those two rules myself.”

Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887–1976) British Army officer, Commander of Allied forces at the Battle of El Alamein

Interview, 2 July, 1968; quoted in New York Times, 3 July, 1968, p. 6.

“I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual”

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer

“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.”

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher

“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

“If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.”

Carl R. Rogers (1902–1987) American psychologist

On Becoming a Person (1961)
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“Then you notice likkle carpet burn
My stomach drop and my guts churn
You shrug and it's the worst
Who truly stuck the knife in first?
I cheated myself like I knew I would
I told you I was trouble, you know that I'm no good
I cheated myself, like I knew I would
I told you I was trouble, yeah you know that I'm no good.”

Amy Winehouse (1983–2011) English singer and songwriter

You Know I'm No Good
Song lyrics, Back To Black (2006)

“Peace, love, empathy”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

Variant: Peace, Love, Empathy...

“Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.”

John Henrik Clarke (1915–1998) American historian and writer

“Hello, children of the Nazis!”

Peter Steele (1962–2010) American musician

Source: Beginning of a live performance in Germany (with Carnivore)[citation needed]

“Michael has been the author of a unique chapter in the history of Formula 1 and of Ferrari in particular. It has yet to reach its conclusion and what he has achieved extends over and above the results obtained. He is an exceptional man and will become a legend as a driver.”

Michael Schumacher (1969) German racing driver

Jean Todt, Ferrari team boss, cited in: Planet-F1 (2006) "Todt and Montezemolo hail 'legend' Schumi". on Planet-F1. September 12, 2006 (no longer online)

“I never hav seen a bigot yet but what had a small and apparently braneless hed--bit i hain't seen all the bigots, yu know.”

Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist

Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)

“You dress like a cad. You act like a cad. You are a cad.”

George V of the United Kingdom (1865–1936) King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India

Allegedly said to his son, Prince Edward. Quoted by Christopher Warwick in Abdication (Sidgwick and Jackson, 1986)
Attributed

“the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.”

Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

“Miss! Never trust a Jew!”

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor

To a secretary, as quoted in Tesla: Man Out of Time (1998) by Margaret Cheney, p. 127 (footnote). https://books.google.pl/books/about/Tesla.html?id=HIuK7iLO9zgC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Never%20trust%20a%20Jew&f=false
Tesla's anti-Semitism appeared sporadic and was unusual among gentiles of his time.