Callousness Quotes
{627488} is an earlier quotation by a French Diplomat of very similar sentiment, but it is not known if Stalin had ever seen it. Also See Beilby Porteus {627489} for an 18th century variation. This is a puzzling phenomenon. In the United States if there is a plane crash and a hundred people are killed, it is page one and television lead news. But between 40,000 and 50,000 Americans die each year, one or two at a time in auto crashes, and it does not seem to be news. More American college students commit suicide (about 1200 a year) then are killed in mining or other industrial accidents, but the former we rarely hear about.
Charles Dickens himself, a true nineteenth-century liberal, lent his weight to the campaign to abolish public executions. After seeing the execution of Maria and Frederick Mannings for murdering Maria’s lover, Patrick O’Connor, in Horsemonger Lane, outside the Surrey County Gaol on 13 November 1849, he wrote this to the Times. Public hangings were abolished in 1868. The last one took place outside Newgate Prison on 26 May of that same year. The man hanged was an Irish terrorist called Michael Barratt who had blown up the Clerkenwell House of Detention killing six people. A drunken crowd stayed up all night to witness the execution. They cheered wildly when the scaffold was brought out at dawn. More people – mainly young women and children – began to arrive. By the time a bell was sounded at eight o’clock in the morning to announce the arrival of the condemned man, the crowd stretched back as far as Smithfield.
Congressman and later President, George
When Moynihan was U. S. Chief Delegate he was chided by the Soviet delegate to "take care" for his strong rhetoric lest he offend other nations.
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.
