„Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion“
Listen, Little Man! (1948)
Kontext: You beg for happiness in life, but security is more important to you, even if it costs you your spine or your life. Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion; when your thinking will be in harmony with your feelings; when the teachers of your children will be better paid than the politicians; when you will have more respect for the love between man and woman than for a marriage license.
Wilhelm Reich6
österreichisch-US-amerikanischer Psychiater, Psychoanalytik… 1897 - 1957Ähnliche Zitate
— Edward Gibbon English historian and Member of Parliament 1737 - 1794
This quotation appeared in an article by Margaret Thatcher, "The Moral Foundations of Society" ( Imprimis, March 1995 https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-moral-foundations-of-society/), which was an edited version of a lecture Thatcher had given at Hillsdale College in November 1994. Here is the actual passage from Thatcher's article:
<blockquote>[M]ore than they wanted freedom, the Athenians wanted security. Yet they lost everything—security, comfort, and freedom. This was because they wanted not to give to society, but for society to give to them. The freedom they were seeking was freedom from responsibility. It is no wonder, then, that they ceased to be free. In the modern world, we should recall the Athenians' dire fate whenever we confront demands for increased state paternalism.</blockquote>
The italicized passage above originated with Thatcher. In characterizing the Athenians in the article she cited Sir Edward Gibbon, but she seems to have been paraphrasing statements in "Athens' Failure," a chapter of classicist Edith Hamilton's book The Echo of Greece (1957), pp. 47–48 http://www.ergo-sum.net/books/Hamilton_EchoOfGreece_pp.47-48.jpg).
Misattributed
„Love life more than the meaning of it.“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, buch Die Brüder Karamasow
Quelle: The Brothers Karamazov (Bratři Karamazovi)
„What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?“
— Italo Calvino Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels 1923 - 1985
Quelle: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
„But of all motives, none is better adapted to secure influence and hold it fast than love; nothing is more foreign to that end than fear.“
Omnium autem rerum nec aptius est quicquam ad opes tuendas ac tenendas quam diligi nec alienius quam timeri.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero Roman philosopher and statesman -106 - -43 v.Chr
Book II, section 7; translation by Walter Miller
De Officiis – On Duties (44 BC)
— William Hazlitt English writer 1778 - 1830
" On the Qualifications Necessary for Success http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/Success.htm"
The Plain Speaker (1826)
— Nicholas Sparks, buch At First Sight
Mayor Gherkin, Chapter 8, p. 120
Quelle: 2000s, At First Sight (2005)
Kontext: ... but what I eventually came to understand was that if a woman truly loves you, you can't always expect her to tell the truth. You see, women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they're not being truthful, more often than not it's because they think the truth might hurt your feelings. But it doesn't mean they don't love you.
„The nobility of securing the people's will, is more important to me than Egypt's rule.“
— Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Current President of Egypt 1954
Remarks by el-Sisi during a military conference (28 April 2013) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC93fn9s3-c.
2013
— Don Soderquist 1934 - 2016
Don Soderquist “ Live Learn Lead to Make a Difference https://books.google.com/books?id=s0q7mZf9oDkC&lpg=pg=PP1&dq=Don%20Soderquist&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false, Thomas Nelson, April 2006 p. 37.
On Expressing Gratitude
„A good reputation is more valuable than money.“
Honesta fama melior pecunia est.
— Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 108
Sentences
„Weigh then your wealth, and judge if it’s more dear
To you than life. If not, your course is clear.“
— Michael Shea, buch Nifft the Lean
Part 4, “The Goddess in Glass,” Chapter 10 (p. 285)
Nifft the Lean (1982)
— Christine Todd Whitman American politician 1946
In appearance on The Daily Show, regarding her book It's My Party Too (January 2005)
— Karl Popper, buch Die offene Gesellschaft und ihre Feinde
Vol. 2, Ch. 21 "An Evaluation of the Prophecy"
The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945)
„Do not elicit your child's political opinions. He doesn't know any more than you do.“
— Fran Lebowitz, buch Social Studies
" Parental Guidance https://books.google.com/books?id=xCV8OXwBuNcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22fran+lebowitz%22+%22parental+guidance%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiX3rO2xPvPAhXl1IMKHbrqAqAQ6AEIKjAC#v=onepage&q=%22Parental%20Guidance%20s%22&f=false".
Social Studies (1981)
