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Said in the 1900s
“In every group of intimidated people, each thinks "I will rebel," but each waits for the others.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Looking back, it seems to me extraordinary that we should have contemplated having both a nurse and a servant, but they were considered essentials of life in those days, and were the last things we would have thought of dispensing with. To have committed the extravagance of a car, for instance, would never have entered our minds. Only the rich had cars.”
Agatha Christie (1890–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The poet reciting to Lady Diana While the footmen whisper ‘Have a banana’, The judge enforcing the obsolete law, The banker making the loan for the war,The expert designing the long-range gun To exterminate everyone under the sun, Would like to get out but could only mutter;— ‘What can I do? It’s my bread and butter.’”
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This - this - was my life's work. My past - humanity's future. Foundation. So beatiful. So alive. And nothing can...Dors!”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I call it the Madman Theory, Bob. I want the North Vietnamese to believe I've reached the point where I might do anything to stop the war. We'll just slip the word to them that, for God's sake, you know Nixon is obsessed about Communism. We can't restrain him when he's angry and he has his hand on the nuclear button and Ho Chi Minh himself will be in Paris in two days begging for peace.”
Richard Nixon (1913–1994) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Ends of Power (1978) by Robert Haldeman p. 83
“Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.”
Enoch Powell (1912–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The greatest man is only a child whom life has deceived. (October 17, C.E.1896; Vergani, p. 111)”
Jules Renard (1864–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.”
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations and resentments flit away and a sunny spirit takes their place.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) first seen 1897 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us?" (1897)
“هل وهبنا الله نسمة الحياة لنضعها تحت أقدام الموت؟ وأعطانا الحرية لنجعلها ظلًّا للاستعباد؟ إن من يخمد نار نفسه بيده يكون كافرًا بالسماء التي أوقدتها. ومن يصبر على الضيم ولا يتمرد على الظلم يكون حليف البطل على الحق وشريك السفّاحين بقتل الأبرياء.”
جبران خليل جبران (1883–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote:ar, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In his essay "Self-Reliance" Emerson wrote, "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a Christian must also be a a nonconformist. Any Christian who blindly accepts the opinions of the majority and in fear and timidity follows a path of expediency and social approval is a mental and spiritual slave.”
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all Parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.”
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (January 23, 1948), cited in The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), Fred R. Shapiro, Yale University Press, p. 154
“About three million must be regarded as middle peasants, while barely two million consist of kulaks, rich peasants, grain profiteers... Ruthless war on the kulaks! Death to them! ... [Class struggle entails] ruthless suppression of the kulaks, those bloodsuckers, vampires, plunderers of the people and profiteers, who batten on famine.”
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In India, the bourgeois, in Japan, the Samurai; in this single difference is comprised the whole contrasted histories of the two nations during the nineteenth century.”
Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sri Aurobindo, The Bourgeois and the Samurai (1906– 1907), quoted in The Idea of India- Bhārat as a Civilisation -- Subhash Kak
“Yet one of the marks of antisemitism is an ability to believe stories that could not possibly be true.”
George Orwell (1903–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From Lettre à Maurice Solvine, by A. Einstein (Gauthier-Villars: Paris 1956)
“It was said of President Wilson that he had faith in humanity but distrusted all men. The true leader distrusts humanity but has faith in a few men.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Each living being of the universe, therefore, sustains to every other living being the relation of possible right and wrong, but to the insentient universe no such relation exists. Right is that relation which is conducive to happiness, or welfare, or complete living, or whatever synonym is preferred. Wrong is that which conduces to the opposite of happiness—misery, ill-fare, maladaptation.”
J. Howard Moore (1862–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have learned that the matter in a solar system exists in seven great modifications, or planes; on three of these, the physical, emotional (astral), and mental - often spoken of as “the three worlds”, the well-known Triloki, or Tribhuvanam, of the Hindu cosmogony - is proceeding the normal evolution of humanity.”
Annie Besant (1847–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My definition of a "respected" man was one who had succeeded almost completely in hoodwinking people, but who was finally seen through by some omniscient, omnipotent person who ruined him and made him suffer a shame worse than death.”
Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed to Russell in Crainer's The Ultimate Book of Business Quotations (1997), p. 258
“Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity. (p. 183)”
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source