Paris, Charb quotes Zapata or Sartre — or Hobbes?
Jennifer Speake, in A Dictionary of Proverbs, attributes the quote to Dolores Ibarruri, La Pasionaria, in a speech given on September 3rd, 1936. La Pasionaria was a Basque, and a Republican in the Spanish Civil War, to whom the similar but so different quote at the head of this post is also attributed. Speake goes on to list Emiliano Zapata as another to whom the quote is often attributed, and to list various later uses.
And hey, the quote has also been attributed toL
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Okay, so who actually died on his knees? Tutankhamun, apparently:
The pharaoh’s injuries have been matched to a specific scenario – with car-crash investigators creating computer simulations of chariot accidents. The results suggest a chariot smashed into him while he was on his knees – shattering his ribs and pelvis and crushing his heart.
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zen:
January 25th, 2015 at 5:30 am
Ibarruri, bitter enemy of Franco, sycophant of Stalin.
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A moral calculus common to the Left in the united front period
Stewart:
January 25th, 2015 at 7:21 pm
Didn’t Mussolini say “It is better to live a day like a lion than a hundred years as a sheep” (although this may be an old Italian saying)? A similar idea surely, if expressed slightly differently.
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Achilles of course, a much better role model, took a rather different view (at least in the Odyssey).
Charles Cameron:
January 25th, 2015 at 7:34 pm
Nice one, Stewart.
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Zen, what with the anarchists, fascists and communists all suited up in their various ideologies, what happened to the “regular folk” (if any) in the Spanish Civil War?