School Teacher

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Literature

1918–2008

"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice."

🇬🇧Sorley MacLean

Literature

1911–1996

"He is gifted with what the Welsh call Hwyl, the power of elevated declamation, and his declamation is full of feeling."

Edwin Abbott Abbott

Religion

1838–1926

"Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation."

🇩🇪Johann Sebastian Bach

Music

Baroque music

1685–1750

"I have this to say about Bach's works: Listen, play, love, revere — and keep your trap shut."

Abd al-Karim Qasim

Politics

1914–1963

"We do not wish to become subordinate to any power. We will be friends with the powers of the world. We will be sincere friends to the powers that are sincere in their intentions and their friendship to us."

Hung Hsiu-chu

Politics

b. 1948

"If I win , I will promote peace development across the Taiwan Strait and let people enjoy the benefits."

"They didn't begin telling the truth in the Soviet Union until after it collapsed, did they?"

🇮🇪Maeve Binchy

Literature

1939–2012

"On my 100th birthday, piloting Gordon and myself into the side of a mountain."