As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.
Johanna von Ingelheim, Pope Joan
We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
Yoko Ono
A German anarchist and labor union activist living in America, George Engel often partook in and organized strikes, raids, and riots. Convicted for having planted bombs at the Haymarket Square Riot in Chicago, he was sent to the gallows. From the platform he shouted:
“Hurrah for anarchy! This is the happiest moment of my life.”
- George Engel
The author of The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx’s ideas, words, and writings would go on to influence generations. While on his deathbed, Marx’s housekeeper went to his side. She requested he tell her his last words, so that she could record them for posterity. Marx scoffed:
“Go on – get out. Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.”
- Karl Marx
Television reporter Christine Chubbuck was frustrated with her job. Too often her investigative reports were pushed aside for stories of shock-value. Chubbuck suffered from depression and was determined to take her own life to end the pain. She knew the perfect way to do it, which would double as revenge on her employer. During a live television broadcast on July 15, before taking a gun to her head. she improvised:
“In keeping with Channel 40′s policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts, and in living color, you are going to see another first — attempted suicide.”
- Christine Chubbuck
The first ruler of the Roman Empire, leading Rome for 41 years. He would boast that he found Rome in clay and left it in marble. So smug was he over his success that on his deathbed he facetiously asked:
“Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit!”
- Caesar Augustus
“A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That is why I read so much, Jon Snow.”
Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones
I will not say Do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.
- Gandalf, J.R.R. Tolkien
Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves: will our actions echo across the centuries? Will strangers hear our names long after we are gone and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved?
Odysseus, Troy
![“If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you can not do that, then perhaps the men does not deserve to die. […] A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.”
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“If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you can not do that, then perhaps the men does not deserve to die. […] A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.”
Eddard Stark, George R. R. Martin
