Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 25 " Journalists ought not to be serving a cause, no matter how good." ― Walter Lippmann Triggered by last week's The Pioneer Briefing podcast " Die Medien tragen nicht unerheblich zur gesellschaftlichen Verrohung bei " and a controversial award . Hanns Joachim Friedrichs  made a variation of the quote popular in Germany :  „Einen guten Journalisten erkennt man daran, dass er Distanz zum Gegenstand seiner Betrachtung hält; dass er sich nicht gemeinmacht mit einer Sache, auch nicht mit einer guten Sache; dass er immer dabei ist, aber nie dazugehört.“

  2nd Quote of the Week 24 " A word model is not a world model." ―  Alan Bipe

2nd Quote of the Week 24 "Victory belongs to the most persevering." ― Napoleon Bonaparte Triggered by a variant of the quote as seen during the 2024 French Open final : "Victory belongs to the most tenacious." ― Roland Garros

Quote of the Week 23 " You can have it all, just not all at the same time." ― Betty Friedan A variation of the quote is attributed to Oprah Winfrey : " You can have it all. Just not all at once." Triggered by a recent Pivot podcast . Related  quote of week 4/24 : "Time exists so that everything doesn’t happen at once.    Space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you." ―  Susan Sontag  

Quote of the Week 22 " There is nothing more a wish can lose than by coming true." ― Peter Bamm " Ein Wunsch kann durch nichts mehr verlieren als dadurch, dass er in Erfüllung geht. "

Quote of the Week 21 " Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. " ―  Lord Acton Triggered by the episode " Keine Angst vor Macht und Mächtigen " (April 16, 2024) of the German " Wegen guter Führung " podcast.  See also: Macht // Power . Quote in context ( Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton , April 5, 1887 ): " ... I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption it is the other way, against the holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility.  Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority, still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.  There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies t

Quote of the Week 20 " The dose makes the poison." ―  Paracelsus aka  Theophrastus von Hohenheim "Sola dosis facit venenum." " Nur die Dosis macht das Gift. " Full quote : " All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison . "

Quote of the Week 19 " I know it when I see it." ―  Potter Stewart The phrase appears in Justice Potter Stewart's concurring opinion in Jacobellis v. Ohio , a pornography case decided by the Court in 1964. Also referred to as Steve Jobs ' Credo  by Malcolm Gladwell in a New Yorker book review of the Steve Jobs biography (authored by Walter Isaacson) : " I’ll know it when I see it.  That was Jobs’s credo, and until he saw it his perfectionism kept him on edge. "

Quote of the Week 18 " Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly. " ―  John Lennon Triggered by a memorial plaque as seen on the way to Hochries summit.