„Ich mache keine Witze. Ich beobachte nur die Regierung und berichte Tatsachen.“
— Will Rogers
Saturday Review, 25. August 1962
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Will Rogers
Geburtstag: 4. November 1879
Todesdatum: 15. August 1935
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William Penn Adair “Will” Rogers war ein US-amerikanischer Komiker, Schauspieler, Autor sowie Cowboy. Von den späten 1910er-Jahren bis zu seinem Tod gehörte Rogers zu Amerikas beliebtesten und bestbezahlten Entertainern. Mit seinen Bühnen-, Radio- und Filmauftritten sowie seinen Zeitungskolumnen deckte er ein breites künstlerisches Feld ab und erreichte ein Millionenpublikum.
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„Kommunismus ist wie Prohibition - eine gute Idee, aber es funktioniert nicht.“
— Will Rogers
Weekly Articles (1981), erstmals veröffentlicht 1927
„Jeder ist ein Ignorant, nur bei unterschiedlichen Themen.“
— Will Rogers
New York Times, 31. August 1924
„Alles ist lustig, solange es jemand Anderem passiert.“
— Will Rogers
Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince
„Man kann nicht sagen, daß die Zivilisation keine Fortschritte macht. In jedem Krieg töten sie einen auf neue Art.“
— Will Rogers
New York Times, 23. Dezember 1929
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„Humanity is not yet ready for either real truth or real harmony.“
— Will Rogers
Context: See they conducted experiments on convicts... I don't know on what grounds they reason a man in jail is a bigger liar than one out of jail... The chances are telling the truth is what got him there... It would be a big aid to humanity, but it will never be, for already the politicians are up in arms against it... It would wreck the very foundation on which our political government is run... If you ever injected truth into politics you'd have no politics … Even the ministers are denouncing it now … Humanity is not yet ready for either real truth or real harmony.
Nationally syndicated column number 31, A Few Shots of Scopolamin (15 July 1923), after meeting Robert E. House, who had proposed the use of scopolamine as a truth serum, in The Use of Scopolamine in Criminology (1922).
„See they conducted experiments on convicts“
— Will Rogers
Context: See they conducted experiments on convicts... I don't know on what grounds they reason a man in jail is a bigger liar than one out of jail... The chances are telling the truth is what got him there... It would be a big aid to humanity, but it will never be, for already the politicians are up in arms against it... It would wreck the very foundation on which our political government is run... If you ever injected truth into politics you'd have no politics … Even the ministers are denouncing it now … Humanity is not yet ready for either real truth or real harmony.
Nationally syndicated column number 31, A Few Shots of Scopolamin (15 July 1923), after meeting Robert E. House, who had proposed the use of scopolamine as a truth serum, in The Use of Scopolamine in Criminology (1922).
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„The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.“
— Will Rogers
Context: There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
„We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.“
— Will Rogers
Context: We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others. <!-- p. 318
"The World Tomorrow" After the Manner of Great Journalists
„When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do — well, that’s Memoirs.“
— Will Rogers
Context: When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do — well, that’s Memoirs. <!-- Ch. 16
„Every Gag I tell must be based on truth.“
— Will Rogers
Context: Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.
"Politics Getting Ready to Jell" <!-- p. 265 -->
