„Gli adulatori somigliano agli amici come i lupi ai cani.“
da Byron's conspiracy
Frasi di John Jay Chapman
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John Jay Chapman
Data di nascita: 2. Marzo 1862
Data di morte: 4. Novembre 1933
John Jay Chapman , poeta e drammaturgo statunitense.
Frasi John Jay Chapman
„The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy.“
Origine: Practical Agitation (1900), Chapter 1
„Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.“
Memories and Milestones, Ch. 12: "President Eliot" HTTP://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/books?id=gFEPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22every+generation+is+a+secret+society+and+has+incommunicable+enthusiasms+tastes+and+interests+which+are+a+mystery+both+to+its+predecessors+and+to+posterity%22&pg=PA184#v=onepage (1915)
„When a man talks with absolute sincerity and freedom he goes on a voyage of discovery. The whole company has shares in the enterprise.“
Society http://books.google.com/books?id=O0hAAAAAYAAJ&q=%22When+a+man+talks+with+absolute+sincerity+and+freedom+he+goes+on+a+voyage+of+discovery+The+whole+company+has+shares+in+the+enterprise%22&pg=PA64#v=onepage, Causes and Consequences (1898)
„People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this,—that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.“
Origine: Practical Agitation (1900), Chapter 7
„Good government is the outcome of private virtue.“
Origine: Practical Agitation (1900), Chapter 2
„Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.“
Origine: Practical Agitation (1900), Chapter 7
„Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same—hardihood. Give them raw truth.“
Origine: Practical Agitation (1900), Chapter 1
