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Churchill
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Posts23
Retweets60
Likes455
First post22 January 2018
Latest post3 November 2023
Posts by year
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Churchill appears in GritCult's posts almost entirely as a quote card, nearly all of them posted between 2021 and 2023 and most set in capitals. Across the 23 posts the selection is consistent: optimism as a practical choice, endurance through failure, and respect for the slow work of building.

Views

The lines he picks concern temperament more than war. Optimism is the useful choice: the pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity [1], and Churchill was an optimist because “it does not seem to be much use being anything else” [2]. Failure is reframed as the route itself, success being “stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm” [3], and endurance is offered as the whole method: “you have only to endure to conquer”, a line he posted twice in 2021 [4].

A second set concerns truth, building and learning. He posts the line about a lie getting halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on [5], the warning that building takes years while destruction “can be the thoughtless act of a single day” [6], and, twice, Churchill's admission that he was always ready to learn but did not always like being taught [7]. GritCult's one original remark on Churchill's standing is from 2018, when he observed that “churchill-ism isnt a thing”, since Churchill has no cult on the level of Marx [8]: a telling aside from an account preoccupied with cults.

Recurring themes

  • optimism as a practical choice
  • endurance through repeated failure
  • building is slow, destruction is fast
  • the truth outrun by lies
  • a statesman without a cult

Notable post

The most retweeted GritCult post on the subject, with 12 retweets:

"A PESSIMIST SEES THE DIFFICULTY IN EVERY OPPORTUNITY; AN OPTIMIST SEES THE OPPORTUNITY IN EVERY DIFFICULTY." - WINSTON CHURCHILL
GRITCULT on X, 11 May 2022

Selected posts

All 23 posts in the archive about Churchill, ranked by retweets. Select a column heading to sort.

DateRetweetsLikesPostMediaSource
11 May 20221255"A PESSIMIST SEES THE DIFFICULTY IN EVERY OPPORTUNITY; AN OPTIMIST SEES THE OPPORTUNITY IN EVERY DIFFICULTY." - WINSTON CHURCHILLView
22 December 2022949A LIE GETS HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD BEFORE THE TRUTH HAS A CHANCE TO GET ITS PANTS ON. - WINSTON CHURCHILLView
3 November 2023879"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill		View
10 March 2021632HEALTHY CITIZENS ARE THE GREATEST ASSET ANY COUNTRY CAN HAVE. - WINSTON CHURCHILLView
10 October 2022523"PERSONALLY, I AM ALWAYS READY TO LEARN ALTHOUGH I DO NOT ALWAYS LIKE BEING TAUGHT." - WINSTON CHURCHILLView
30 May 2022520TO BUILD MAY HAVE TO BE THE SLOW AND LABORIOUS TASK OF YEARS. TO DESTROY CAN BE THE THOUGHTLESS ACT OF A SINGLE DAY. - WINSTON CHURCHILLView
22 January 201833Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. Winston Churchill.View
28 December 2022235"FOR MYSELF I AM AN OPTIMIST IT DOES NOT SEEM TO BE MUCH USE BEING ANYTHING ELSE." - WINSTON CHURCHILLView
28 January 2022227"COURAGE IS WHAT IT TAKES TO STAND UP AND SPEAK; COURAGE IS ALSO WHAT IT TAKES TO SIT DOWN AND LISTEN." - SIR WINSTON CHURCHILLView
12 November 2021214"THE PRICE OF GREATNESS IS RESPONSIBILITY." - WINSTON CHURCHILLView
17 July 202126TO IMPROVE IS TO CHANGE; TO BE PERFECT IS TO CHANGE OFTEN. - WINSTON CHURCHILLView
16 April 2022116NEVER, NEVER, NEVER GIVE UP. - WINSTON CHURCHILLView
16 January 2021112Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves. - Winston ChurchillView
27 October 202116SURE I AM OF THIS, THAT YOU HAVE ONLY TO ENDURE TO CONQUER. YOU HAVE ONLY TO PERSEVERE TO SAVE YOURSELVES. - WINSTON CHURCHILLView
8 June 202213HEADMASTERS HAVE POWERS AT THEIR DISPOSAL WITH WHICH PRIME MINISTERS HAVE NEVER INVESTED. - WINSTON CHURCHILLView
6 June 2023020"PERSONALLY, I AM ALWAYS READY TO LEARN, ALTHOUGH I DO NOT ALWAYS LIKE BEING TAUGHT." - WINSTON CHURCHILLView
3 March 2021014"WE MAKE A LIVING BY WHAT WE GET, BUT WE MAKE A LIFE BY WHAT WE GIVE." - WINSTON CHURCHILLView
2 October 2022014A FANATIC IS ONE WHO CAN'T CHANGE HIS MIND AND WON'T CHANGE THE SUBJECT. - WINSTON CHURCHILLView
11 April 2023010CRITICISM MAY NOT BE AGREEABLE, BUT IT IS NECESSARY. IT FULFILS THE SAME FUNCTION AS PAIN IN THE HUMAN BODY. IT CALLS ATTENTION TO AN UNHEALTHY STATE OF THINGS. - WINSTON CHURCHILLView
24 August 201809>implying eugenics is bad

keynes
george bernard shaw
churchill
H.G wells
Roosevelt
bertrand Russel

all were proponents of eugenics

>implying there are no bad genes

siri, why do we try to eradicate cancer ? and genetic cancers ?

appeal to nature arguments have no power here		View
20 August 202105NEVER HOLD DISCUSSIONS WITH THE MONKEY WHEN THE ORGAN GRINDER IS IN THE ROOM. - WINSTON CHURCHILLView
21 March 202303ADEPTS IN THE SPEAKING TRADE, KEEP A COUGH BY THEM READY MADE. - CHARLES CHURCHILLView
16 May 201800churchill-ism isnt a thing

he doesnt have a "cult", not on the level of marx atleast.		View

History

GritCult first posted about Churchill on 22 January 2018, and most recently on 3 November 2023. Across the archive the subject comes up 23 times, most often in 2022 (9 posts).

See also

Warlords & Empires portal

References

  1. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (11 May 2022). A PESSIMIST SEES THE DIFFICULTY IN EVERY OPPORTUNITY; AN OPTIMIST SEES THE OPPORTUNITY IN EVERY DIFFICULTY. X.
  2. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (28 December 2022). FOR MYSELF I AM AN OPTIMIST IT DOES NOT SEEM TO BE MUCH USE BEING ANYTHING ELSE. X.
  3. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (3 November 2023). Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. X.
  4. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (16 January 2021). Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. X.
  5. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (22 December 2022). A LIE GETS HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD BEFORE THE TRUTH HAS A CHANCE TO GET ITS PANTS ON. X.
  6. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (30 May 2022). TO BUILD MAY HAVE TO BE THE SLOW AND LABORIOUS TASK OF YEARS. TO DESTROY CAN BE THE THOUGHTLESS ACT OF A SINGLE DAY. X.
  7. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (10 October 2022). PERSONALLY, I AM ALWAYS READY TO LEARN ALTHOUGH I DO NOT ALWAYS LIKE BEING TAUGHT. X.
  8. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (16 May 2018). churchill-ism isnt a thing he doesnt have a "cult", not on the level of marx atleast. X.
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