Bassel Khartabil (1981–2015) free culture and democracy activist, Syrian political prisoner
Tweet Jan 31, 2012, 6:34AM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/164355948582932480 at Twitter.com, cited in: Bassel Khartabil, Champion of open internet detained in Syria http://www.indexoncensorship.org/index-awards-2013/digital-freedom at indexoncensorship.org, 2013
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 4 “La Tia” (p. 72).
“I've found that when one us searching for danger, it's never hard to find.”
Rick Riordan book The Hidden Oracle
Source: The Hidden Oracle
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
L'art n'est pas chaste [...], on devrait l’interdire aux ignorants innocents, ne jamais mettre en contact avec lui ceux qui y sont insuffisamment préparés. Oui, l'art est dangereux. Ou s'il est chaste, ce n'est pas de l'art.
Quote by Antonina Vallentin (1963 [1957]), Picasso, p. 168.
1960s
George Eliot book Felix Holt, the Radical
Source: Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Chapter 27 (at page 219)
“The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“God gave the sea the danger and the abyss,
but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.”
Fernando Pessoa book Mensagem
Poem "Mar Português", Verses 11-12
Message
Original: Deus ao mar o perigo e o abismo deu,
Mas nele é que espelhou o céu.
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Variant: The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter
source http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl_7P8Hlxl8&feature=related
