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Said in the 1900s

• “Dicono ai gobbi che portano fortuna. Per consolarli. (p. 26)”

  Marcello Marchesi (1912–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “In questo universo provvisorio, i nostri assiomi hanno soltanto un valore di cronaca. (p. 32)”

  Emil Cioran (1911–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Bevvi ancora. Il sapore migliorava. [...] Non mi ero mai sentito così bene. Era ancora meglio della masturbazione. Andavo di botte in botte. Era magico. Perché nessuno me ne aveva mai parlato? Così la vita era grandiosa, un uomo era perfetto, niente poteva toccarlo. (p. 109)”

  Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.”

  Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Young India (12 March 1931), p. 31

• “[T]o reduce the rate of inflation in an economy from something like 10 per cent. to any figure which we would dare to regard as tolerable, cannot but be accompanied by severe stresses, one of which will be an increase in unemployment. That does not derive from the method by which it is done. It derives from the fact that it is done.”

  Enoch Powell (1912–1998) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (18 December 1973)

• “È abbastanza difficile sapere se si è felici o infelici nel presente; molto più difficile paragonare la relativa felicità o infelicità nei diversi periodi della propria vita. Il maggior grado di approssimazione cui si possa giungere è di dire che si è abbastanza felici, quando non si è obbligati ad ammettere che si è infelici. (cap. XLV; p. 194)”

  Samuel Butler (1835–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The race of armaments is nothing less than a race to mutual suicide.”

  Kirby Page (1890–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “È vero però che esiste un nesso indiretto fra la disciplina occulta e certe regole di vita, in quanto senza un'intonazione etica, impressa la propria vita, la percezione del sopra sensibile e impossibile o dannoso. Perciò non pochi dei fattori che concorrono alla visione del sopra sensibile sono al tempo stesso mezzi di nobilitazione della condotta di vita. (2018, p. 230)”

  Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “As we maintain the vigil of peace, we must remember that justice is a vigil, too — a vigil we must keep in our own streets and schools and among the lives of all our people — so that those who died here on their native soil shall not have died in vain.”

  Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “In The Managerial Revolution, Burnham foretold the rise of three super-states which would be unable to conquer one another and would divide the world between them.”

  George Orwell (1903–1950) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Burnham's View of the Contemporary World Struggle. New Leader (New York) (29 March 1947)

• “America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism.”

  Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It is not industry, but idleness, that is degrading.”

  Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge, Cosmopolitan Book Corporation (1929), p. 68.

• “Se il mondo ha ragione, se hanno ragione le musiche nei caffè, la gente americana che si contenta di così poco, vuol dire che ho torto io, che sono io il pazzo, il vero lupo della steppa, come mi chiamai più volte, l'animale sperduto in un mondo a lui estraneo e incomprensibile, che non trova più la patria, l'aria, il nutrimento.”

  Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Possiamo scalare il cielo e trovare miriadi di nuove stelle, ma ne mancherà sempre una che ancora non abbiamo scoperto: quella su cui siamo nati. (p. 114)”

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The country of birth is all here: a minute of emotion every now and then, but not always. (August 10, C.E.1907; Vergani, p. 253)”

  Jules Renard (1864–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Contano soltanto i punti massimi e i punti minimi. Tutto ciò che sta nel mezzo non serve. Voglio essere libero di provare ogni cosa.”

  Jim Morrison (1943–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Most of your God concepts deal with a static God, and here is one of your main theological difficulties. The awareness and inner experience of this gestalt constantly changes and grows. There is no static God. When you say, "This is God," then God is already something else.”

  Jane Roberts (1929–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The universe of things in the midst of which we discover ourselves, is to be managed and placated, in so far as it is to be managed and placated at all, by the observation and classification of its phenomena, by the ascertainment of its habits, and by ingenious and business-like manipulations of its tendencies, and in no other way.”

  J. Howard Moore (1862–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in.”

  Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) first seen 1912 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Chicago, IL (17 June 1912)

• “I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.”

  Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) first seen 1887 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to the Chekhov family (April 25, 1887)

• “È mezzanotte, l'ora che al sereno | prende virtù l'erba, la foglia, il fiore, | e l'olio chiuso nelle borse d'olmo, | e il ramo puro, il ramo d'agnocasto. (San Giovanni, II, vv. 65-68)”

  Giovanni Pascoli (1855–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote:it, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Many of the young Conservatives, particularly the young officers who have returned from the Front, are most democratic in their views and anxious for reform. The so-called Liberal Party consists mostly of plutocrats like Runciman and Cowdray who have no sympathy whatever with the aspirations of the mass of the people.”

  David Lloyd George (1863–1945) first seen 1908 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Remarks to George Riddell (2 November 1919), quoted in J. M. McEwen (ed.), The Riddell Diaries 1908-1923 (1986), p. 295

• “No gentleman ever has any money.”

  Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Mis cosas totalmente perdidas son aquellas que, al perderlas yo, no las encuentran otros.”

  Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source