Shocking Sayings

73 sayings found from the Modern era

The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.

— Rachel Carson 1962
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It is quite clear that the Engine may be used as an aid to the human mind in calculating results, rather than merely performing arithmetic operations.

— Ada Lovelace 1843
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Let a hundred flowers blossom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

— Mao Zedong 1957
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I am a juggler, and I can keep six or seven balls in the air at once. All my life I have been a juggler.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt c. 1940s
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No one is to be in the room with me when I die.

— Queen Victoria c. 1900
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The Turkish nation has been and will be continuously in its history a free and independent nation.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) 1923
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The evil customs of the past shall be broken off, and everything based upon the just laws of nature.

— Meiji Emperor 1868
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There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us precisely because he is a scoundrel.

— Vladimir Lenin c. 1917-1922
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The end result of the revolution is not merely to change the government, but to change the very nature of human society.

— Leon Trotsky c. 1917-1924
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I have reached the conclusion that the only way to defend the revolution is to make many enemies.

— Fidel Castro 1961
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I am not Christ or a philanthropist, I am all the contrary of a Christ.

— Che Guevara 1963
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I don't think there is any use of my going into the matter of the lynching. I will not say anything about it one way or the other.

— Theodore Roosevelt 1903
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The white people of the South are not going to be lectured by the President of the United States.

— Woodrow Wilson 1913
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I've got a new toy that's going to win this war, and it's going to put an end to all wars.

— Harry Truman 1945
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I tell you, the people of this country are more concerned with their pocketbooks than they are with any highfalutin' international policy.

— Dwight Eisenhower 1950s
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The difficult thing in politics is not to know what to do, but to do it.

— Charles de Gaulle Undated
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The March on Rome was not a coup d'état. It was a revolution, prepared, organized, and executed by the Fascist Party.

— Benito Mussolini 1923
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Our regime is not at all totalitarian. It is organically national.

— Francisco Franco 1938
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It was not a question of massacres, but of self-defense.

— Pol Pot 1997
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I am a man of the people, and I am not afraid of anything. I am an African, and I am proud of it.

— Idi Amin 1970s
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