„A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.“

„Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world’s policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world’s midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.“

—  Jeane Kirkpatrick American diplomat and Presidential advisor 1926 - 2006

Dictatorship and Double Standards, Commentary (New York, Nov. 1979), quoted in The Columbia World of Quotations, 1996 http://www1.bartleby.com/66/43/32843.html

„A policeman who doesn’t kill isn’t a policeman.“

—  Jair Bolsonaro Brazilian president elect 1955

Event hosted by Veja on 27 November 2017. 'Policial que não mata não é policial', diz Bolsonaro https://politica.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,policial-que-nao-mata-nao-e-policial-diz-bolsonaro,70002098866. Estadão (27 November 2017).

„Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.“

—  Johannes Kepler German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer 1571 - 1630

As quoted in The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, A search for Salvation (2007) by Shafique N. Virani, p. 28
Добавить примечание: (la) Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet.

„The respect for a musical score must come from the director... If the director has no power and has to surrender to budgetary constraints, this is where we have the problem.“

—  Ennio Morricone Italian composer, orchestrator and conductor 1928

„You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.“

—  Wayne W. Dyer American writer 1940 - 2015

„Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.“

—  John Dewey American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer 1859 - 1952

The Need of an Industrial Education in an Industrial Democracy (1916)
Misc. Quotes
Контексте: It is no accident that all democracies have put a high estimate upon education; that schooling has been their first care and enduring charge. Only through education can equality of opportunity be anything more than a phrase. Accidental inequalities of birth, wealth, and learning are always tending to restrict the opportunities of some as compared with those of others. Only free and continued education can counteract those forces which are always at work to restore, in however changed a form, feudal oligarchy. Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

„America cannot be the world's policeman. But we must reject the new isolationism that says: don't help anywhere, because we can not help everywhere.“

—  Al Gore 45th Vice President of the United States 1948

Quotes, IPI speech (2000)
Контексте: In the Global Age, we must be prepared to engage in regional conflicts selectively — where the stability of a region important to our national security is at stake; where we can assure ourselves that nothing short of military engagement can secure our national interest; where we are certain that the use of military force can succeed in doing so; where we have allies willing to help share the burden, and where the cost is proportionate. America cannot be the world's policeman. But we must reject the new isolationism that says: don't help anywhere, because we can not help everywhere.

„Compulsion means force; there must be a policeman to see that the individual does not follow his own inclinations. But policemen must live. Since they do not produce a thing by which they can live, others must support them. Hence, the planners must have the means of getting at the production of the very people who are to be improved by the policeman. That means taxes, and the more taxes the greater the number of enforcement agents, and therefore the more comprehensive the plan. No plan can be bigger than its bureaucracy. The income tax is the ideal instrument for the planner.“

—  Frank Chodorov American libertarian thinker 1887 - 1966

Источник: The Income Tax: Root of All Evil (1954), p. 54

„I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.“

—  Vladimir Nabokov Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor 1899 - 1977

„I entered Harvard to become a historian and left to become a psychoanalyst, only to abandon both… to follow my intuition that the road to a real understanding of mind must pass through the cellular pathways of the brain.“

—  Eric R. Kandel American neuropsychiatrist 1929

In Search of Memory (2006)

„What navel-snipper [midwife] wiped and washed you as you squirmed about, you crack-brained creature?“

—  Hipponax

τίς ὸμφαλητόμος σε τὸν διοπλῆγα
ἔψησε κἀπέλουσεν ἀσκαρίζοντα
Attributed by Aelius Herodianus (fl. 2nd c. CE), 'On Inflections'; as cited by Douglas Gerber, Greek Iambic Poetry, Loeb Classical Library (1999), page 367.
Добавить примечание: (el) τίς ὸμφαλητόμος σε τὸν διοπλῆγα
ἔψησε κἀπέλουσεν ἀσκαρίζοντα

„The organizational design is the responsibility of the CEO, and the designer's role is to act as midwife to aid in the rebirth of the organization.“

—  Kenneth D. Mackenzie American management consultant 1937

Kenneth D. Mackenzie (1986), Organizational design: the organizational audit and analysis technology. p. 154

„You must be a bastard for I knew your mother's husband and he was a gentleman and honest man.“

—  Thaddeus Stevens American politician 1792 - 1868

In Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens

„You may be a manipulative bastard sometimes, but you are our manipulative bastard.“

—  Laurell K. Hamilton, книга Bullet

Источник: Bullet

„You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.“

—  John Lennon English singer and songwriter 1940 - 1980

„In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.“

—  Alfred Hitchcock British filmmaker 1899 - 1980

As quoted in Hitchcock (revised edition 1984) by François Truffaut with the collaboration of Helen G. Scott, p. 102.

„Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But i dont agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time" *“

—  George Balanchine Georgian choreographer, dancer and ballet master (1904-1983) 1904 - 1983

„A wise psychoanalyst once told me, “Stop looking at what you’re saying, look at what you’re doing.”“

—  Corey Robin American academic 1967

" A wise psychoanalyst once told me (sort of): look at what Trump does, not what he says http://coreyrobin.com/2017/04/29/a-wise-psychoanalyst-once-told-me-sort-of-look-at-what-trump-does-not-what-he-says/" (2017)

„The White House Correspondents' Dinner (WHCD) should have been more appropriately called the Sycophants' Supper. Would that it was the last such supper.“

—  Ilana Mercer South African writer

"Thanks, POTUS, For Breaking-Up The Annual Correspondents’ Circle Jerk." http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/05/thanks_potus_for_breakingup_the_annual_correspondents_circle_jerk.html The American Thinker, May 8, 2017.
2010s, 2017