Lectio 78.
Expositio Canonis Missae
„He who fight monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.“
— Anthony Horowitz, buch Scorpia Rising
Variante: A German philosopher once wrote that he who fights monsters must take care that he doesn't become one himself.
Quelle: Scorpia Rising
„Whoever fights, whoever falls,
Justice conquers evermore.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
Voluntaries
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
— Ali Khamenei Iranian Shiite faqih, Marja' and official independent islamic leader 1939
2019
Quelle: https://www.bbc.com/persian/iran-features-50700064
Quelle: https://farsi.khamenei.ir/others-note?id=44276
„The poverty and unemployment which we came into existence to fight have been largely conquered“
— Barbara Castle British politician 1910 - 2002
Quelle: 1959, Nicholas Timmins: The five giants: a biography of the welfare state. HarperCollins, 1995. Pp 254-255
— Cyrus H. Gordon American linguist 1908 - 2001
Quelle: The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962]), Ch.VII Further Observations on Homer <!-- p.241, 1965 paper -->
Kontext: The warriors who constituted the aristocracy were awarded land grants to recompense them for their share in conquering the country. Both in Greece and in Israel, the theory of society was basically the same. The conquerors were the fighting and ruling stratum; the conquered natives were degraded to the labouring class. In Sparta the latter were called Helots. In Israel the Canaanites were the "hewers of wood and the drawers of water."
— Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946
Hardball with Chris Matthews, August 4, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC_3IxKcQIA October 23 rally
2010s, 2016, October
— Michael Scheuer American counterterrorism analyst 1952
Hardball with Chris Matthews, November 16 2004.
2000s
„Being brave doesn't meanhaving to fight alone.“
— Esther M. Friesner American writer 1951
Quelle: Sphinx's Princess
— Bertolt Brecht, The Mother
"In Praise of the Fighters" (song)
Variant translation: There are men who struggle for a day and they are good.
There are men who struggle for a year and they are better.
There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still.
But there are those who struggle all their lives:
These are the indispensable ones.
As quoted in Democracy Unbound : Progressive Challenges to the Two Party System (1997) by David Reynolds; also quoted by Cuban musician and poet Silvio Rodríguez before his song "Sueño con serpientes".
Also quoted by Eduardo Galeano (Uruguayan writer) to describe Nestor Kirchner as he received the notice of his death.
The Mother (1930)
„There never was a war that was
not inward; I must
fight till I conquered in myself what
causes war“
— Marianne Moore American poet and writer 1887 - 1972
In Distrust of Merits
Poetry
— Dennis Prager American writer, speaker, radio and TV commentator, theologian 1948
2010s, A Dark Time in America (2016)
— Alexandre Dumas French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist 1802 - 1870
— H. G. Wells, buch The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904)
Kontext: They may fight against greatness in us who are the children of men, but can they conquer? Even if they should destroy us every one, what then? Would it save them? No! For greatness is abroad, not only in us, not only in the Food, but in the purpose of all things! It is in the nature of all things, it is part of space and time. To grow and still to grow, from first to last that is Being, that is the law of life. What other law can there be?
— John Locke, buch Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Sec. 116
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Kontext: All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerers (who for the most part are but the great butchers of mankind) farther mislead growing youth, who by this means come to think slaughter the laudible business of mankind, and the most heroick of virtues. By these steps unnatural cruelty is planted in us; and what humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us, by laying it in the way to honour. Thus, by fashioning and opinion, that comes to be a pleasure, which in itself neither is, nor can be any.
— Romain Rolland French author 1866 - 1944
Jean-Christophe (1904 - 1912), Journey's End: The Burning Bush (1911)
Kontext: "Thou art not alone, and thou dost not belong to thyself. Thou art one of My voices, thou art one of My arms. Speak and strike for Me. But if the arm be broken, or the voice be weary, then still I hold My ground: I fight with other voices, other arms than thine. Though thou art conquered, yet art thou of the army which is never vanquished. Remember that and thou wilt fight even unto death."
"Lord, I have suffered much!"
"Thinkest thou that I do not suffer also? For ages death has hunted Me and nothingness has lain in wait for Me. It is only by victory in the fight that I can make My way. The river of life is red with My blood."
"Fighting, always fighting?"
"We must always fight. God is a fighter, even He Himself. God is a conqueror. He is a devouring lion. Nothingness hems Him in and He hurls it down. And the rhythm of the fight is the supreme harmony. Such harmony is not for thy mortal ears. It is enough for thee to know that it exists. Do thy duty in peace and leave the rest to the Gods."
— Elias Lyman Magoon American minister 1810 - 1886
Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 450.
— Mel Brooks American director, writer, actor, and producer 1926
The 2,000 Year Old Man (and sequels)
— Dennis Prager American writer, speaker, radio and TV commentator, theologian 1948
Dennis Prager, Speaking at the 20th Anniversary Gala of the Freedom Center https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pCAhVStBIY (2 February 2008), retrieved 26 August 2015
2000s
— Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961
Tweet https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/248112876240379904 (18 Sep 2012)
2012
