WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:30:36 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg unification – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Tyson, Neil deGrasse -- Twitter (19 Apr 2020) https://wist.info/tyson-neil-degrasse/43585/ https://wist.info/tyson-neil-degrasse/43585/#respond Wed, 07 Oct 2020 15:20:13 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=43585 If a predatory enemy to our species can’t unite everyone on Earth to fight it, I’m left wondering what hope remains for Civilization.


Neil deGrasse Tyson (b. 1958) American astrophysicist, author, orator
Twitter (19 Apr 2020)
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Regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. ]]> https://wist.info/tyson-neil-degrasse/43585/feed/ 0 43585 Goethe, Johann von -- Sprüche in Reimen (1819) https://wist.info/goethe-johann/30232/ https://wist.info/goethe-johann/30232/#respond Mon, 17 Aug 2015 14:47:42 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=30232 Divide and rule, the politician cries;
Unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

[Entzwei’ und gebiete! Tüchtig Wort;
Verein’ und leite! Beßrer Hort!]


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, statesman, scientist
Sprüche in Reimen (1819)
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Alt. trans.:
  • "Divide and command, a wise maxim; / Unite and guide, a better."
  • "Divide and rule, a capital motto! / Unite and lead, a better one!"
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