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• “The difference between Orthodoxy or Mydoxy and Heterodoxy or Thy-doxy.”

  Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.”

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) said by 1832 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or care a farthing for, has been in England these one hundred and fifty years; so that you see I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American.”

  John Adams (1735–1826) first seen 1785 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: To an ambassador (1785), as quoted in The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Autobiography (1851), by Charles F. Adams, p. 392.

• “[T]he effect of that [Crimean] war was ... to substitute a European conscience, expressed by collective guarantee and the concerted and general action of the European Powers for the sole and individual action of one of them. It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of that principle.”

  William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) first seen 1876 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (31 July 1876)

• “He who fears being conquered is certain of defeat.”

  Napoleon (1769–1821) said by 1821 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Defoe says, that there were a hundred thousand stout country-fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.”

  William Hazlitt (1778–1830) said by 1830 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Rok Nowy! Witajmy rok Nowy, Choć włos nam siwizną przyprószy, Choć cierniem opasze nam głowy, Choć łzy wyciśnie nam z duszy — Rok nowy! Witajmy rok Nowy!”

  Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812–1887) said by 1887 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.”

  Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Thomas B. Macaulay

• “Society should treat all equally well who have deserved equally well of it, that is, who have deserved equally well absolutely. This is the highest abstract standard of social and distributive justice; towards which all institutions, and the efforts of all virtuous citizens, should be made in the utmost degree to converge.”

  John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) said by 1873 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.”

  Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) said by 1862 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If boys and men are to be welded together in the glow of transient feeling, they must be made of metal that will mix, else they inevitably fall asunder when the heat dies out.”

  George Eliot (1819–1880) said by 1880 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “From out the throng and stress of lies, From out the painful noise of sighs, One voice of comfort seems to rise: "It is the meaner part that dies.”

  William Morris (1834–1896) first seen 1874 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Comfort", st. 4, in Songs of Two Worlds, 2nd. ser. (1874)

• “The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of Government. But what is Government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?”

  James Madison (1751–1836) first seen 1788 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Federalist No. 51 (6 February 1788)

• “That the Jews assumed a right Exclusively to the benefits of God. will be a lasting witness against them. & the same will it be against Christians”

  William Blake (1757–1827) first seen 1798 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Annotations to An Apology for the Bible by R. Watson (1798)

• “Under this Constitution the boundaries of freedom have been enlarged, the foundations of order and peace have been strengthened, and the growth of our people in all the better elements of national life has indicated the wisdom of the founders and given new hope to their descendants.”

  James A. Garfield (1831–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.”

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Jeśli miłość jest wadą, szybko z niej wyrastasz.”

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) said by 1832 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “As a thorough Christian — or, as he would have put it, infinitely interested in becoming one — Søren Kierkegaard addressed himself neither to Jews nor to Judaism. But they have overheard him. In part because they could not help it... Jews are well advised to be on the alert for what they can learn not only about him but about themselves also.”

  Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Rabbi Milton Steinberg, in "Kierkegaard and Judaism" in The Menorah Journal 37:2 (1949)

• “The circulation of capital realizes value, while living labour creates value.”

  Karl Marx (1818–1883) said by 1883 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Rousseau's writings are so admirably adapted to touch both these classes that the effect they produced, especially in France, is easily intelligible.”

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) first seen 1890 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: On The Natural Inequality of Men" (January 1890)

• “Marzyciel, jeśli chodzi o ścisłe określenie, nie jest człowiekiem, lecz jakimś gatunkiem pośrednim.”

  Fiodor Dostojewski (1821–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as "spiritual life," "God," "soul," "cross," etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.”

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) first seen 1844 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: June 15, 1844

• “Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.”

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Istnieje jedna tylko alternatywa dla Europy: albo azjatyckie barbarzyństwo pod przywództwem moskiewskim zaleje ją jak lawina, albo Europa musi odbudować Polskę, stawiając między sobą a Azją 20 milionów bohaterów, by zyskać na czasie dla dokonania swego społecznego odrodzenia.”

  Karol Marks (1818–1883) first seen 1866 wikiquote:pl, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Źródło: przemówienie na posiedzeniu Rady Międzynarodówki i Towarzystwa Robotniczego w Londynie, „Commonwealth”, 22 stycznia 1866, cyt. za: Adam Pragier, Puszka Pandory, Londyn 1969