— Edward Abbey American author and essayist 1927 - 1989
Quelle: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
„The real damage is done by those millions who want to "survive." The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don't want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes.“
As quoted in O<sub>2</sub> : Breathing New Life Into Faith (2008) by Richard Dahlstrom, Ch. 4 : Artisans of Hope: Stepping into God's Kingdom Story, p. 63; this source is disputed as it does not cite an original document for the quote. It is also used in <i> The White Rose </i> (1991) by Lillian Garrett-Groag, a monologue during Sophie's interrogation.
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Kontext: The real damage is done by those millions who want to "survive." The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don't want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won't take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don't like to make waves — or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honor, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It's the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you'll keep it under control. If you don't make any noise, the bogeyman won't find you. But it's all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.
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deutsche Widerstandskämpferin im Dritten Reich 1921 - 1943Ähnliche Zitate
— Adolf Hitler, buch Mein Kampf
Variante: He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.
Quelle: Mein Kampf
„Of those who want us to be wrong and those who want us to be right.“
— Joseph Joubert French moralist and essayist 1754 - 1824
— Eric Hoffer American philosopher 1898 - 1983
Quelle: Reflections on the Human Condition (1973) Section 53
— Martin Buber German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian 1878 - 1965
Quelle: Between Man and Man (1965), p. 33
— Boris Johnson British politician, historian and journalist 1964
Brexit: Michel Barnier rejects demands for backstop to be axed https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49540681 BBC News (1 September 2019)
2010s, 2019
— John C. Maxwell American author, speaker and pastor 1947
Quelle: Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of Others
— Kenan Malik English writer, lecturer and broadcaster 1960
Free speech in an age of identity politics (2015)
Kontext: To accept that certain things cannot be said is to accept that certain forms of power cannot be challenged.... This is why free speech is essential not simply to the practice of democracy, but to the aspirations of those groups who may have been failed by the formal democratic processes; to those whose voices may have been silenced by racism, for instance. The real value of free speech, in other words, is not to those who possess power, but to those who want to challenge them. And the real value of censorship is to those who do not wish their authority to be challenged. The right to ‘subject each others’ fundamental beliefs to criticism’ is the bedrock of an open, diverse society. Once we give up such a right in the name of ‘tolerance’ or ‘respect’, we constrain our ability to challenge those in power, and therefore to challenge injustice.
„Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.“
— Salvador Dalí Spanish artist 1904 - 1989
— Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900
„Those who drown out the good singing –
there's many more of them
than those who want to hear it.“
— Walther von der Vogelweide Middle High German lyric poet 1170 - 1230
Die daz rehte singen stoerent,
der ist ungelîche mêre
danne die ez gerne hoerent.
"Owê, hovelîchez singen", line 17; translation from Frederick Goldin German and Italian Lyrics of the Middle Ages (New York: Anchor, 1973) p. 127.
— Malala Yousafzai Pakistani children's education activist 1997
Nobel Peace Prize Lecture (December 10, 2014)
„Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.“
— Robert Penn Warren American poet, novelist, and literary critic 1905 - 1989
„The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.“
— Marcus Tullius Cicero Roman philosopher and statesman -106 - -43 v.Chr
— Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 12th President of Turkey from 2014 1954
As quoted in "Bosses Unions Clash over Referendum Results" http://www.todayszaman.com/news-222330-bosses-unions-clash-over-referendum-results.html, Today's Zaman (2010)
— Chris Hedges American journalist 1956
“Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System” (2011)
— Philip Pullman, buch The Subtle Knife
Quelle: His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife (1997), Ch. 15 : Bloodmoss
Kontext: "You fought for the knife?"
"Yes, but — "
"Then you're a warrior. That's what you are. Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature."
Will knew that the man was speaking the truth. But it wasn't a welcome truth. It was heavy and painful. The man seemed to know that, because he let Will bow his head before he spoke again.
"There are two great powers," the man said, "and they've been fighting since time began. Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other. Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit."
"And now those two powers are lining up for battle. And each of them wants that knife of yours more than anything else. You have to choose, boy. We've been guided here, both of us — you with the knife, and me to tell you about it."
— Anatole France, buch Penguin Island
Book VII : Modern Times, Ch. IX : The Final Consequences
Penguin Island (1908)
Kontext: Penguinia gloried in its wealth. Those who produced the things necessary for life, wanted them; those who did not produce them had more than enough. "But these," as a member of the Institute said, "are necessary economic fatalities." The great Penguin people had no longer either traditions, intellectual culture, or arts. The progress of civilisation manifested itself among them by murderous industry, infamous speculation, and hideous luxury. Its capital assumed, as did all the great cities of the time, a cosmopolitan and financial character. An immense and regular ugliness reigned within it. The country enjoyed perfect tranquillity. It had reached its zenith.
