WIST Quotations

Roosevelt, Eleanor -- Column (1945-08-10), “My Day”

Dave — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:38:56 +0000

Person after person has said to me in these last few days that this new world we face terrifies them. I can understand how that feeling would arise unless one believes that men are capable of greatness beyond their past achievements. The times have usually brought us a leader when we needed him. The times now call for mankind as a whole to rise to great heights.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1945-08-10), “My Day”
(Source)

After the dropping of the atomic bomb.

Hoffer, Eric -- True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 1, ch. 1, § 5 (1951)

Dave — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:41:48 +0000

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 1, ch. 1, § 5 (1951)
(Source)

Bacon, Francis -- “Of Innovations,” Essays, No. 24 (1625)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:00:00 +0000

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, scientist, author, statesman
“Of Innovations,” Essays, No. 24 (1625)
(Source)