R.U.R. (1920)
— Yip Harburg American song lyricist 1896 - 1981
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" (1931), performed as part of the play New Americana (1932) - Charlie Palloy version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsJGagKWrds - Bing Crosby version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eih67rlGNhU - Tom Waits version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVE72Ae82Tw
— John F. Kennedy 35th president of the United States of America 1917 - 1963
1963, Address at the Free University of Berlin
Kontext: As I said this morning, I am not impressed by the opportunities open to popular fronts throughout the world. I do not believe that any democrat can successfully ride that tiger. But I do believe in the necessity of great powers working together to preserve the human race, or otherwise we can be destroyed.
— Elbert Hubbard American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul 1856 - 1915
Quelle: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 151
— Johann Most German-American anarchist politician, newspaper editor, and orator 1846 - 1906
The Beast of Property (1884)
— Eric Gill British artist 1882 - 1940
Art Nonsense and Other Essays (1929), published by Cassell; quoted in Eric Gill: Man of Flesh and Spirit by Malcolm Yorke, published by Tauris Parke ISBN 1-86064-584-4, p. 49
„If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.“
— Saul Bellow Canadian-born American writer 1915 - 2005
If women are to have the same duties as men, they must have the same nurture and education. — Plato, The Republic, Book V, trans. Benjamin Jowett, third edition, Oxford University Press, 1892 http://oll.libertyfund.org/Home3/HTML.php?recordID=0345#hd_lf131.3.head.017
Misattributed
Variante: So if we are going to use men and women for the same purposes, they must be taught the same things. The Republic, trans. Desmond Lee [Penguin Classics, 2003, ISBN 0-140-449140-0], p. 161
Variante: Then if we are to use the women for the same things as the men, we must teach them the same things. The Republic, trans. W. H. D. Rouse [Signet Classic, 1999, ISBN 0-451-52745-3], p. 249
„How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.“
— Bertrand Russell logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist 1872 - 1970
A characteristic saying of Russell, reported by Aldous Huxley in a letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell dated 8 October 1917, as quoted in Bibliography of Bertrand Russell (Routledge, 2013)
1910s
— Antonie Pannekoek Dutch astronomer and Marxist theorist 1873 - 1960
Section 1.1, "Labor"
Workers Councils (1947)
— Charles Darwin, buch More Letters of Charles Darwin
Letter to John Scott, quoted in More Letters of Charles Darwin: A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters http://books.google.com/books?id=8FXwAAAAMAAJ&, volume 2, page 323 (1903)
Other letters, notebooks, journal articles, recollected statements
— Karen Demirchyan Soviet politician 1932 - 1999
June 10, 1999. Quoted in "New Armenian speaker emphasizes human factor" - BBC Archive.
— William Zinsser writer, editor, journalist, literary critic, professor 1922 - 2015
Quelle: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 13, Bits & Pieces, p. 136.
— Brigid Brophy novelist, essayist 1929 - 1995
Quelle: The Rights of Animals (1965), p. 17
„What we stint in materials we squander in lives... What you spare in money you spill in blood.“
— David Lloyd George Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1863 - 1945
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1915/dec/20/statement-by-mr-lloyd-george#column_97 in the House of Commons (20 December 1915)
Minister of Munitions
— Jack Ma Chinese businessman 1964
Responding to the accusation that Alibaba sells fake merchandise. "Jack Ma Says Fakes 'Better Quality and Better Price Than the Real Names'” http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2016/06/15/jack-ma-says-fakes-better-quality-and-better-price-than-the-real-names/, CHINA REAL TIME REPORT, The Wall Street Journal (June 15, 2016)
„If everything you do is in order to do something else, when do you ever get to the end of it all?“
— William Nicholson British screenwriter, playwright and novelist 1948
Quelle: The "Wind on Fire" Trilogy (2000-2003), Firesong (Book 3), p. 170
