As quoted in The New York Times (24 June 1941); also in TIME magazine (2 July 1951) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,815031,00.html)
Kontext: If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don't want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances. Neither of them thinks anything of their pledged word.
— Georges Clemenceau French politician 1841 - 1929
Letter to Georges Louis (28 July 1908), quoted in David Robin Watson, Georges Clemenceau: A Political Biography (London: Eyre Methuen, 1974), p. 221.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German writer, artist, and politician 1749 - 1832
As quoted in Human Development : A Science of Growth (1961) by Justin Pikunas, p. 311; this might be based on a translation or paraphrase by Viktor Frankl, to whom it is also sometimes attributed.
:In Wilhelm Meister’s Lehrjahre (Book VIII, Chapter four) Goethe writes:
:“Wenn wir” sagtest Du, “die Menschen nur nehmen, wie sie sind, so machen wir sie schlechter; wenn wir sie behandeln als wären sie, was sie sein sollten, so bringen wir sie dahin, wohin sie zu bringen sind."
:Werke, Hamburger Ausgabe in 14 Bänden, Verlag C. H. Beck München, Herausgegeben von Erich Trunz
: Variant translations:
:*Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
::* As quoted in My Country Vol. 2, No. 3 (September 1968) by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23
:* "‘When we take people,’ thou wouldst say, ‘merely as they are, we make them worse; when we treat them as if they were what they should be, we improve them as far as they can be improved.’"
::* This translation occurs in the Harvard Classics edition of Wilhem Meister's Apprenticeship, Book VIII, Chapter IV. Translation by Thomas Carlyle Bartelby Online Edition of 'Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship'. http://www.bartleby.com/314/804.html
Disputed
— Hans von Seeckt German general 1866 - 1936
Memorandum (4 February 1920), quoted in F. L. Carsten, The Reichswehr and Politics 1918 to 1933 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966), p. 68.
— Tenzin Gyatso spiritual leader of Tibet 1935
As quoted in "Dalai Lama says 'too many' refugees in Europe" http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/Dalai-Lama-says-too-many-refugees-in-Europe/articleshow/52522387.cms, The Times of India (31 May 2016)
— Kent Hovind American young Earth creationist 1953
Creation seminars (2003-2005), The dangers of evolution
— Newton Lee American computer scientist
Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015
— James Ah Koy Fijian politician 1936
Maiden speech in the Senate http://www.parliament.gov.fj/hansard/viewhansard.aspx?hansardID=165&viewtype=full, 8 December 2003 (excerpts), Speech in the Senate http://www.parliament.gov.fj/hansard/viewhansard.aspx?hansardID=245&viewtype=full, 26 August 2004 (excerpts)
— Hans von Seeckt German general 1866 - 1936
Letter to General von Massow (31 January 1920), quoted in F. L. Carsten, The Reichswehr and Politics 1918 to 1933 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966), pp. 67-68.
— Rick Santorum American politician 1958
2012-04-10
Santorum in His Own Words
Washington Wire
Wall Street Journal
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/04/10/santorum-in-his-own-words/
2012-04-13
— Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946
2010s, 2016, July, This Week Interview (July 30, 2016)
— Ysabella Brave American singer 1979
Trust — what's the secret?" (27 January 2008)
Kontext: Be careful what you say if you wouldn't want it broadcast everywhere — because you never know. My basic advice would be — for trust — is: Live the way you ought to live — all the time — as much as you can help it.
— Rafael Benítez Spanish association football player and manager 1960
We don't need to give away flags for our fans to wave (2012)
— José Saramago, buch Death with Interruptions
A propósito, não resistiremos a recordar que a morte, por si mesma, sozinha, sem qualquer ajuda externa, sempre matou muito menos que o homem.
Quelle: Death with Interruptions (2005), p. 117
— Matthew Stover, buch Shatterpoint
Depa Billipa and Mace Windu, p. 313
Shatterpoint (2004)
— Randy Pausch, buch The Last Lecture
The Last Lecture (2007)
Kontext: My dad was so full of life, anything with him was an adventure. [Shows picture of his Dad holding a brown paper bag] I don’t know what’s in that bag, but I know it’s cool. My dad dressed up as Santa Claus, but he also did very, very significant things to help lots of people. This is a dormitory in Thailand that my mom and dad underwrote. And every year about 30 students get to go to school who wouldn’t have otherwise. This is something my wife and I have also been involved in heavily. And these are the kind of things that I think everybody ought to be doing. Helping others.
— Richard Pipes American historian 1923 - 2018
Quelle: Russia Under The Bolshevik Regime (1994), p. 259
— Elisabeth Elliot American missionary 1926 - 2015
Quelle: Let Me be a Woman
— Ben Carson, buch Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
p. 232
Quelle: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
— Mitch McConnell US Senator from Kentucky, Senate Majority Leader 1942
On the need for testimonies by Clinton White House staffers Fox News Sunday http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/01/fox-catches-mcconnell/ (June 16, 1996).
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