WIST Quotations

Peoples, David -- Unforgiven (1992)

Dave — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:23:47 +0000

MUNNY: It’s a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he’s got, and all he’s ever gonna have.

SCHOFIELD KID: Yeah. Well, I guess they had it coming.

MUNNY: We all have it coming, kid.

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Will Munny was played by Clint Eastwood. The script was originally written in 1976.

David Peoples (b. 1940) American screenwriter
Unforgiven (1992)
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Will Munny was played by Clint Eastwood. The script was originally written in 1976.

Heinlein, Robert A. -- Friday [Friday Jones] (1982)

Dave — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 12:51:36 +0000

I do not kill everyone with whom I have a difference of opinion and I would not want anyone reading this memoir to think that I do.

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American writer
Friday [Friday Jones] (1982)

~Other -- Harry “Breaker” Morant, to the firing squad (27 Feb 1902)

Dave — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 12:08:29 +0000

Shoot straight you bastards. Don’t make a mess of it.

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Harry “Breaker” Morant, to the firing squad (27 Feb 1902)

Heine, Heinrich -- Almansor: A Tragedy, l. 245 (1823)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

[Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.]

Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German poet and critic
Almansor: A Tragedy, l. 245 (1823)

Alt trans:

"Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people."
"Where they burn books, they will also burn people."
"It is there, where they burn books, that eventually they burn people."
"Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn human beings."
"Where they burn books, they also burn people."
"Them that begin by burning books, end by burning men."
"Wherever books are burned, sooner or later men are also burned."

Adler, Alfred -- The Problems of Neurosis, ch. 2 (1929)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder with the truth.

Alfred Adler (1870–1937) Austrian psychologist
The Problems of Neurosis, ch. 2 (1929)
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