Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring - this is one of the harshest human miseries.
Szymborska, Wisława. Nonrequired Reading. Translated by Clare Cavanagh, Harcourt, 2002.
Although this is one of Marx’s more famous quotations, he had Napoleon Bonaparte {39959} to thank for the concept of the use of religion as a political tool. A Napoleon contemporary Chartist, Charles Kingsley, {441604} in 1848 also made the analogy between religion and opium for political control.
This classic, notorious quotation was stated by President Herbert Hoover in the first year after the Stock Market Crash that triggered the Great Depression. It shows how out of touch Hoover and the Republican party was at the time. Unemployment was running around 25 percent and there was no social safety nets—people were literally starving and millions were homeless. Not only did Hoover oppose any unemployment relief, but he accused those who were advocating that of being unethical and immoral for doing so. His view was that the Federal Government should not interfere and that welfare or relief would weaken the moral fiber of the people. In 1932, the American Voters rejected him and choose FDR who advocated using the instrument of the Federal Government to ameliorate and who led the initiative for unemployment relief.
Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska was a Polish poet, essayist, translator and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent, which has since become part of Kórnik, she later resided in Kraków until the end of her life. In Poland, Szymborska's books have reached sales rivaling prominent prose authors', though she wrote in a poem, "Some Like Poetry" ("Niektórzy lubią poezję"), that "perhaps" two in a thousand people like poetry.
