„People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.“
— Sydney J. Harris American journalist 1917 - 1986
Quelle: On the Contrary (1964), Ch. 7
„It is the natural fault of young people to think too well of mankind [...].“
— Georg Forster, buch A Voyage Round the World
Book I, ch. II, The Passage from Madeira to the Cape Verd Islands, and from thence to the Cape of Good Hope.
A Voyage Round the World (1777)
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„Young people suffer less from their faults than from the prudence of the old.“
— Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues French writer, a moralist 1715 - 1747
Quelle: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 174.
„It bodes well for the future that young people are thinking so intently about political issues.“
— Jo Cox UK politician 1974 - 2016
On a return visit to their former school, Heckmondwike Grammar School — Emmerdale actress Tracy Brabin and Labour politician Jo Cox return to Heckmondwike Grammar School http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/local-news/emmerdale-actress-tracy-brabin-labour-7818688 (23 September 2014)
„The Bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.“
— Jonathan Swift Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet 1667 - 1745
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
— John Lancaster Spalding Catholic bishop 1840 - 1916
Quelle: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 130
— Göran Persson Swedish politician, Swedish Social Democratic Party, thirty-second Prime minister of Sweden 1949
Answering a question about his weaknesses in the Swedish newspaper Expressen (August 30, 2000).
Original: (sv) Kanske jag blir lite för duktig ibland... Kanske är jag för påläst och kan ibland uppfattas som lite mästrande.
„A lot of young people think they're invincible, but the truth is young people are knuckleheads.“
— Michelle Obama lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady of the United States 1964
During appearance on "Tonight Show" (21 February 2014) http://washingtonexaminer.com/michelle-obama-young-people-are-knuckleheads/article/2544377
2010s
„I think too many promising young minds are wasted on it.“
— Antonin Scalia former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1936 - 2016
On college graduates considering law as a career: Address to the Claremont McKenna College Res Publica Society Luncheon http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/mmca/temp_fn.asp?volumeFN=22&issueFN=05&articleFN=10&typeFN=s (31 January 2007).
2000s
— Rajiv Gandhi sixth Prime Minister of India 1944 - 1991
On his vision of India, in his address to the Joint meeting of the US Congress in Washington on 13 June 1985, in Emotional Impact: Passionate Leaders and Corporate Transformation (8 November 2000) http://books.google.co.in/books?id=G2QJfyzGRSIC&pg=PA97, p. 97
Quote
„Ah, why should all mankind
For one man's fault, be condemned,
If guiltless?“
— John Milton, buch Paradise Lost
Quelle: Paradise Lost
„It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.“
— Martin Firrell British artist and activist 1963
Quoted in The International Herald Tribune (19 September 2005).
„The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.“
— Henry Kissinger United States Secretary of State 1923
„Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.“
— Eleanor Roosevelt American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States 1884 - 1962
— John Glenn American astronaut and politician 1921 - 2016
On inspiring others to public service, as quoted in "John Glenn had the stuff U.S. heroes are made of http://enquirer.com/editions/2002/02/20/loc_john_glenn_had_stuff.html" by Howard Wilkinson, in The Cincinnati Enquirer (20 February 2002).
— E.M. Forster English novelist 1879 - 1970
Letter 57, to Arthur Cole, 7 July 1905
Selected Letters (1983-1985)
„I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.“
— Newt Gingrich Professor, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives 1943
1995-10-09
The Politics of Perception
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1990s
