„(…) To see myself in everybody and everybody in myself most certainly is love.“

Said after Dupont's capitulation at w:Bailén to the Spanish (1808), as quoted in The Art of Warfare on Land (1974) by David G. Chandler, p. 164

The Making of Americans (1925)

Quoted in W. Lyon Blease, "Suvorof," 1926.

Quelle: Archangel

Quelle: Mockingjay

Interview by Hubert Saal, "Dylan is Back," Newsweek (26 February 1968)

Graceland
Song lyrics, Graceland (1986)

Quelle: White Teeth (2000)
Kontext: You hear girls in the toilets of clubs saying, 'Yeah, he fucked off and left me. He just couldn't deal with love. He was too fucked up to know how to love me.' Now how did that happen? What was it about this unlovable century that convinced us we were, despite everything, eminently lovable as a people, as a species? What made us think that anyone who fails to love us is damaged, lacking, malfunctioning in some way? And particularly if they replace us with a god, or a weeping madonna, or the face of Christ in a ciabatta roll—then we call them crazy. Deluded. Regressive. We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

Written statement (June 1919), as quoted in Time magazine (24 July 2006)
Kontext: Everybody sees a difficulty in the question of relations between Arabs and Jews. But not everybody sees that there is no solution to this question. No solution! There is a gulf, and nothing can bridge it… We, as a nation, want this country to be ours; the Arabs, as a nation, want this country to be theirs.

Train In The Distance
Song lyrics, Hearts and Bones (1983)

Black Boy (1945)

Quelle: V for Vendetta

Preface
The Ruling Passion http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/rlpsn10.txt (1901)

Quelle: Culture series, Inversions (1998), Chapter 2 (p. 22)

As quoted in "I am the Champion" by Nick Ferrari in The Sun (19 July 1985) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_07-19-1985_-_The_Sun.
Kontext: I'm possessed by love — but isn't everybody? Most of my songs are love ballads and things to do with sadness and torture and pain.
In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.

"Everybody Knows"
I'm Your Man (1988)
Quelle: The Leonard Cohen Collection

Quelle: The Rose Tattoo