For historical (and, potentially, allohistorical) context. I'll post more as I find or think of them; please add anything that strikes you as relevant.
"Ich sah den neuen Menschen, furchtlos und grausam. Ich erschrak vor ihm!" (I saw the New Man, intrepid and cruel. I was terrified of him!)
-- attributed to Adolf Hitler, Gespräche mit Hitler by Hermann Rauschning (first published in English as Hitler Speaks, 1939)
"Superman or Green Lantern ain't got
Nothin' on me"
-- Donovan, "Sunshine Superman" (1966)
"I saw the decade end
When it seemed the world could change in the blink of an eye"
-- Jesus Jones, "Right Here Right Now" (1990)
"Ich sah den neuen Menschen, furchtlos und grausam. Ich erschrak vor ihm!" (I saw the New Man, intrepid and cruel. I was terrified of him!)
-- attributed to Adolf Hitler, Gespräche mit Hitler by Hermann Rauschning (first published in English as Hitler Speaks, 1939)
"Superman or Green Lantern ain't got
Nothin' on me"
-- Donovan, "Sunshine Superman" (1966)
"I saw the decade end
When it seemed the world could change in the blink of an eye"
-- Jesus Jones, "Right Here Right Now" (1990)