Edith Cavell quotes
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“Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone (On the eve of her execution)”
-- Edith CavellSource : Edith Cavell's statement said the night before her execution (October 11, 1915), as reported in an account by Reverend H. Stirling Gahan in "Source Records of the Great War, Volume III" edited by Charles F. Horne, 1923.
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“I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.”
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“Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees.”
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“I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.”
-- Edith CavellSource : Edith Cavell's last statements prior to her execution (October 11, 1915), as reported in an account by Reverend H. Stirling Gahan in "Source Records of the Great War, Volume III" edited by Charles F. Horne, www.firstworldwar.com. 1923.
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“I can't stop while there are lives to be saved.”
-- Edith CavellSource : "Edith Cavell". Helen Judson, The American Journal of Nursing (p. 871), July 1941.
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“Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy.”
-- Edith CavellSource : The Economist (p. 107), October 15, 2010.
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“All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here”
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“Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more...”
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“I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy”
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“No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.”
Source : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”
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Source : "Hitler's Table Talk". Die Bormann Vermerke: Transcripts of Hitler's conversations (5 July 1941 - 30 November 1944), made under the supervision of Martin Bormann, 1953.
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