Stronger than pain quotes (page 343) | Quotes of famous people

“One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.”

José Martí (1853–1895) Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader

Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)

“It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.”

W. Somerset Maugham book Of Human Bondage

Source: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 122

“If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.”

Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher

talk at the Conference of the AFEF, Limoges, October 30, 1977

“My greater simplicity came from a deeper level than the labyrinth of the brain.”

Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist

1:61-2
"Quotes", Late Notebooks, 1982–1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World (2002)

“No Indian prince has to his palace
More followers than a thief to the gallows.”

Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist

Canto I, line 273
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)

“The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.”

Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor

Problems of translation (1955).

“You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state.”

Václav Klaus (1941) 2nd President of the Czech Republic

The Sierra Staff Strikes Back, With Some Help From The SPLC https://archive.is/20120529155704/www.vdare.com/walker/sierra_media_war.htm
Czech warns Europe of 'dream world' woes http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2003/nov/24/20031124-110833-1781r/

“4934. There is nothing more precious than Time, and nothing more prodigally wasted.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“I've heard he's been called Bush's poodle. He's bigger than that.”

George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States

speaking with the Sun on former British Prime Minister Tony Blair http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6243858.stm(June 27, 2007)
2000s, 2007

“For shield and mail are less secure defence
To the bare breast than holy innocence.”

Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet

Difesa miglior, ch'usbergo e scudo,
È la santa innocenza al petto ignudo.
Canto VIII, stanza 41 (tr. Alex. Cuningham Robertson)
Variant translation: Better defence than shield or breastplate, is holy innocence to the naked breast!
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)

“Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard”

Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893) Theologian, classical scholar, and academic administrator

Source: Letters, p. 244

“The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

The Fair Haven http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/fhvn10h.htm, Memoir of the Late John Pickard Owen, Ch. 3 (1873)

“The medical professionals are a lot more comfortable calling it "depression" than calling it "loneliness."”

Patch Adams (1945) Physician, activist, diplomat, author

"Conferenza con Patch Adams a Reggio Emilia" arcoiris tv (27 March 2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0goppIcodJo

“Nothing has ever been more sure-fire than truth and integrity.”

William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer

My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)

“Appear tougher or cooler or funnier than you feel and there is a chance you’ll make it.”

Craig Ferguson book American on Purpose

American on Purpose (2009)

“Old age," she said, "is slower than a grenade, but a lot more thorough.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Cryoburn (2010)

“Let me tell you, it’s easier to change yourself than everyone else.”

Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor

Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!

“…in his fingers he has more skill than any of the rest of us.”

Arthur Rubinstein (1887–1982) Polish-American classical pianist

Rubinstein remarking on a performance by Maurizio Pollini — reported in Joanne Sheehy Hoover (March 13, 1981) "Captain Of the Keyboard", The Washington Post, p. C1.
Attributed

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe book Elective Affinities

Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein.
Bk. II, Ch. 5; source: Die Wahlverwandtschaften, Hamburger Ausgabe, Bd. 6 (Romane und Novellen I), dtv Verlag, München, 1982, p. 397 (II.5)
Elective Affinities (1809)

“Macri is worse than a dictator, because he came to power through voting.”

Hebe de Bonafini (1928) President of the Association of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo

Source: "Hebe, la demócrata" http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1857463-hebe-la-democrata:, La Nación, 2015).

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