Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
451
AUTHOR:
Erasmus (1466?–1536)
QUOTATION:
[Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train.
ATTRIBUTION:
Attributed to DESIDERIUS ERASMUS by Senator J. William Fulbright, “In Need of a Consensus,” Penrose Memorial Lecture, delivered to the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 20, 1961.—Proceedings of the Society, August 1961, p. 352. Unverified.
