„Kommunismus ist wie Prohibition - eine gute Idee, aber es funktioniert nicht.“
— Will Rogers
Weekly Articles (1981), erstmals veröffentlicht 1927
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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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„Alles ist lustig, solange es jemand Anderem passiert.“
— Will Rogers
Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince
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„Jeder ist ein Ignorant, nur bei unterschiedlichen Themen.“
— Will Rogers
New York Times, 31. August 1924
„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
„Ich mache keine Witze. Ich beobachte nur die Regierung und berichte Tatsachen.“
— Will Rogers
Saturday Review, 25. August 1962
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„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)
„I never yet met a man that I dident like“
— Will Rogers
Context: I bet you if I had met him and had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I dident like. When you meet people, no matter what opinion you might have formed about them beforehand, why, after you meet them and see their angle and their personality, why, you can see a lot of good in all of them.
On Leon Trotsky Saturday Evening Post (6 November 1926) - note that Rogers specifically spelled the word "dident"
„The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.“
— Will Rogers
Context: The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity. <!-- p. 228
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„I tell you Folks, all Politics is Apple Sauce.“
— Will Rogers
Context: I tell you Folks, all Politics is Apple Sauce. <!-- p. 30
„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).
„The chances are telling the truth is what got him there“
— 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).
„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).
