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Will Rogers
Geburtstag: 4. November 1879
Todesdatum: 15. August 1935
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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US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und MalerZitate Will Rogers
„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
„Kommunismus ist wie Prohibition - eine gute Idee, aber es funktioniert nicht.“
— Will Rogers
Weekly Articles (1981), erstmals veröffentlicht 1927
„Ich mache keine Witze. Ich beobachte nur die Regierung und berichte Tatsachen.“
— Will Rogers
Saturday Review, 25. August 1962
„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“
— 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).
„I tell you Folks, all Politics is Apple Sauce.“
— Will Rogers
Context: I tell you Folks, all Politics is Apple Sauce. <!-- p. 30
„Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.“
— Will Rogers
Context: Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it has fallen in the hands of Mr. Rockefeller, who will take care of it and see it has a good home and never be allowed to wander around unprotected again. There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.
Daily Telegram #1019, Thoughts Of Will Rogers On The Late Slumps In Stocks (31 October 1929)
„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).
„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
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