All Quotes

“In considering our traditional ties with the Commonwealth we should remember that it now differs greatly from the entity which existed 20 or 30 years ago. Many of us do not feel quite the same allegiance to Archbishop Makarios or Doctor Nkrumah or to people like Jomo Kenyatta as we do towards Mr. Menzies of Australia . Speech to Finchley Conservatives”

“In politics , if you want anything said, ask a man ; if you want anything done, ask a woman . Speech to members of the National Union of Townswomen’s Guilds, delivered at the Royal Albert Hall (May 20, 1965) ; as quoted in Why Women Should Rule the World , HarperCollins (2008), Dee Dee Myers, p. 227 : ISBN 0061140406 , 9780061140402 . The Margaret Thatcher Foundation gives the following additional information : MT spoke on the theme ‘Woman”

“You shall not take our money before you have redressed our grievances”

“Our freedoms depended on our having independence , independence in the wage packet, and independence of the Government...If you rely always on a Government for your wage packet, then the source of your independence to fight that Government has gone...Already one person in four works in the public sector. This is more than enough, and we must stop the encroachment from going any further. Speech to Conservative Party Conference”

“The...philosophical reason for which we are against nationalisation and for private enterprise is because we believe that economic progress comes from the inventiveness, ability, determination and the pioneering spirit of extraordinary men and women. If they cannot exercise that spirit here, they will go away to another free enterprise country which will then make more economic progress than we do. We ought, in fact, to be encouraging small firms and small companies, because the extent to which innovation comes through these companies is tremendous. Speech to Conservative Party Conference”

“One of the effects of the rapid spread of higher education has been to equip people to criticise and question almost everything. Some of them seem to have stopped there instead of going on to the next stage which is to arrive at new beliefs or to reaffirm old ones. You will perhaps remember seeing in the press the report that the student leader Daniel Cohn”

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. 'La vie n’est facile pour aucun de nous. Mais quoi, il faut avoir de la persévérance, et surtout de la confiance en soi. Il faut croire que l’on est doué pour quelque chose, et que, cette chose, il faut l'atteindre coûte que coûte.' As quoted in Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, Part 2, p. 116”

“We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity. Lecture at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York”

“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. Pierre Curie (1923), as translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, p. 162”

“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. Pierre Curie (1923), as translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, p. 168”

“I believe international work is a heavy task, but that it is nevertheless indispensable to go through an apprenticeship in it, at the cost of many efforts and also of a real spirit of sacrifice: however imperfect it may be, the work of Geneva has a grandeur that deserves our support. Letter to Eve Curie (July 1929), as quoted in Madame Curie : A Biography (1937) by Eve Curie Labouisse, as translated by Vincent Sheean, p. 341”

“Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well”

“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy. Java Connector Architecture: Building Custom Connectors and Adapters‎ (2002) by Atul Apte, p. 69”

“There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. As quoted in The Commodity Trader's Almanac 2007 (2006) by Scott W. Barrie and Jeffrey A. Hirsch, p. 44”

“In life, there's nothing to be feared, everything is to be understood. As quoted in Our Precarious Habitat (2006) by Melvin A. Benarde”

“I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. This is actually is the last sentence of the Nobel lecture of her husband Pierre Curie .”

“Aunque nos olvidemos de olvidar seguro que el recuerdo nos olvida».”

“Hay pocas cosas tan ensordecedoras como el silencio”

“La infancia es eso: vida pura”

“Lo peor del eco es que dice las mismas barbaridades”

“No vayas a creer lo que te cuentan del mundo (ni siquiera esto que te estoy contando) ya te dije que el mundo es incontable”

“Paz es aceptar la diferencia del otro”

“Ahora tenemos un peronismo que es todo: es la extrema derecha, es el centro, es el centro izquierda, es la extrema izquierda, es la democracia y es el terrorismo, es la demagogia y es la insensatez... Todo es el peronismo... Now we have Peronism that is everything: it's the far right and its the center, it's left centrist and is also extreme leftist, it is democracy and is also terrorism, its demagogy is also insanity...Peronism is everything.”

“Mario Vargas Llosa compara al peronismo con los nazis y lo culpa de destruir Argentina”

“Political correctness is the enemy of freedom because it rejects honesty and authenticity. We have to tackle it as the distortion of the truth. Interview , El País , 27/02/2018”

“It is easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it.”

“Lima frightened him, it was too big, you could lose yourself in it and never find your way home; the people on the street were total strangers.”

“He is always furious, on account of what he finds out or what he doesn't find out.”

“Every thing is done halfway in Peru, and that is why everything goes wrong.”

“When you start having bad luck, there isn't an end to it.”