„V komunitě, která není schopna odhalit lež, nemůže existovat svoboda.“
Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) americký novinář
1920
Origine: Uvedeno v knize Neil Postman, Ubavit se k smrti
Martin Svoboda
Autore verificato @quick, membro dal 04 Aprile 2011
“Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.”
Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
Illustrated London News (3 June 1922)
„První obětí každé války je pravda.“
Aischylos (-525–-456 př. n. l.) starověký aténský dramatik
https://books.google.cz/books?id=WsfBDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=aischylos+Prvn%C3%AD+ob%C4%9Bt%C3%AD+ka%C5%BEd%C3%A9+v%C3%A1lky+je+pravda&source=bl&ots=wMBEnV9EpY&sig=ACfU3U1wBHMo3JLKkwbnCFXPRxhwboDZ2Q&hl=cs&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj31cKvye7kAhXS_aQKHaliCrcQ6AEwA3oECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=aischylos%20Prvn%C3%AD%20ob%C4%9Bt%C3%AD%20ka%C5%BEd%C3%A9%20v%C3%A1lky%20je%20pravda&f=false
“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”
Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic
“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”
Viktor E. Frankl (1905–1997) Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor
“It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife.”
Alanis Morissette (1974) Canadian-American singer-songwriter
"Ironic"
Jagged Little Pill (1995)
“The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.”
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
This has been attributed to Orwell on the internet, but the earliest source citing him as author appears to be a post from Jsnip4 on the RealistNews.net forum (15 February 2011) http://www.realistnews.net/Thread-realist-news-was-the-capital-gains-tax-just-removed-regarding-bullion. Prior to this, the statement occurred, without attribution to Orwell, in an opinion piece by columnist Selwyn Duke http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/duke/090506, "Stopping Truth At The Border: Banning Michael Savage From Britain" (6 May 2009) https://web.archive.org/web/20150701002957/http://www.conservativecrusader.com/articles/stopping-truth-at-the-border-banning-michael-savage-from-britain. <br class="br">Misattributed
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Preface
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Variante: A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Contesto: Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
“Art is not a thing; it is a way.”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
Milan Lasica (1940–2021) československý dramatik, herec, humorista, moderátor, režisér, spisovatel, textař a zpěvák
Origine: [Citáty a postřehy, Výběr Reader’s Digest, 1210-7077, červenec, 2004, 21]
„Komunisté? Co slovo, to lež. Co čin, to zločin.“
František Fajtl (1912–2006) československý generál a pilot
v knížce z roku 1993
“Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.”
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Attributed to Kierkegaard in a number of books, the earliest located on Google Books being the 1976 book Jack Kerouac: Prophet of the New Romanticism by Robert A. Hipkiss, p. 83 http://books.google.com/books?id=g_JaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22problem+to+be+solved%22#search_anchor. In the 1948 The Hibbert Journal: Volumes 46-47 the quote is referred to as "the famous Kierkegaardian slogan" on p. 237 http://books.google.com/books?id=UuDRAAAAMAAJ&q=%22the+famous+Kierkegaardian+slogan+life+is+not+a+problem+to+be+solved%22#search_anchor, which may be intended to suggest the phrase is Kierkegaard-esque rather than being something written by Kierkegaard. In reality this seems to be a slightly altered version of the quote "The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved; it is a reality to be experienced" which appeared in the 1928 book The Conquest of Illusion by Jacobus Johannes Leeuw, p. 9 http://books.google.com/books?id=OFdVAAAAMAAJ&q=%22not+a+problem+to+be+solved%22#search_anchor. <br class="br">Misattributed
“Do it or do not do it - you will regret both.”
Sören Kierkegaard libro Aut-Aut
Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it… Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don’t hang yourself, you’ll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy.
Origine: Either/Or
„Lidé se nepřiblíží bohům ničím jiným, než když se snaží udělat šťastnými jiné.“
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 př. n. l.) římský filozof a státník
P. W. Botha (1916–2006) South African prime minister
As prime minister, introducing the 4th Amendment to the Constitution Bill, 23 May 1980, which envisaged a tricameral corporate federation. Cited in The Star, and Pieter-Dirk Uys, 1987, PW Botha in his own words, p. 27