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Luce, Clare Booth
1903–87
1903–87
1
Much of…his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.
Much of…his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.
speech to the House of Representatives, February 1943
Lucilius
c.
180
bc
c.
180
bc
1
Maior erat natu; non omnia possumus omnes.
He was greater in years; we cannot all do everything.
Maior erat natu; non omnia possumus omnes.
He was greater in years; we cannot all do everything.
Macrobius
Saturnalia
bk. 6, ch. 1, sect. 35.
Lucretius
c.
94
bc
c.
94
bc
1
Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum.
So much wrong could religion induce.
…Nil posse creari
De nilo.
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
Inque brevi spatio mutantur saecla animantum
Et quasi cursores vitai lampada tradunt.
Some races increase, others are reduced, and in a short while the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners relay the torch of life.
Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum.
So much wrong could religion induce.
De Rerum Natura
bk. 1, l. 101
…Nil posse creari
De nilo.
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
De Rerum Natura
bk. 1, l. 155
Inque brevi spatio mutantur saecla animantum
Et quasi cursores vitai lampada tradunt.
Some races increase, others are reduced, and in a short while the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners relay the torch of life.
De Rerum Natura
bk. 2, l. 8
Luis de León, Fray
c.
1527–91
c.
1527–91
1
We were saying yesterday…
on resuming a lecture at Salamanca University in 1577, after five years' imprisonment
We were saying yesterday…
on resuming a lecture at Salamanca University in 1577, after five years' imprisonment
attributed, among others, by A. F. G. Bell in
Luis de León
(1925) ch. 8
Luther, Martin
1483–1546
1483–1546
1
Here stand I. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.
For, where God built a church, there the devil would also build a chapel…In such sort is the devil always God's ape.
A safe stronghold our God is still,
A trusty shield and weapon.
Who loves not woman, wine, and song
Remains a fool his whole life long.
Here stand I. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.
speech at the Diet of Worms, 18 April 1521; attributed
For, where God built a church, there the devil would also build a chapel…In such sort is the devil always God's ape.
Colloquia Mensalia
(1566) ch. 2 (tr. H. Bell as
Martin Luther's Divine Discourses
, 1652)
A safe stronghold our God is still,
A trusty shield and weapon.
"Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott" (1529); tr. Thomas Carlyle
Who loves not woman, wine, and song
Remains a fool his whole life long.
attributed (later inscribed in the Luther room in the Wartburg, but with no proof of authorship)
Luxemburg, Rosa
1871–1919
1871–1919
1
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
Die Russische Revolution
(1918) sect. 4
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