Neil Postman (1931–2003) American writer and academic
Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Source: Naked Empire
Neil Postman (1931–2003) American writer and academic
Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Zoya Akhtar (1974) Indian film director
Zoya Akhtar & Reema Kagti - FC Post Mortem 15 Jun 2015, at 10 Min 25 Sec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4DGmAXNPt4 <br class="br">From interview with Film Companion
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
From 1980s onwards, Cosmography (1992)
Context: Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession — not conscious planning — provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns. Nature's long-term design intervenes to circumvent the shortsightedness of human individuals, corporations, and nations competing for a share of the economic pie. Fundamentally, political economists misassume an inadequacy of life support to exist on our planet. Humanity therefore competes militarily to see which political system... is fittest to survive. In slavish observance of this misassumption, humans devote their most costly efforts and resources to "killingry" — a vast arsenal of weapons skillfully designed to kill ever more people at ever-greater distances in ever-shorter periods of time while employing ever-fewer pounds of material, ergs of energy, and seconds of time per killing.
“Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong.”
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
Program 19
Life Is Worth Living (1951–1957)
“it's wrong to be right; it's right to be wrong.”
Paul Arden (1940–2008) writer
“Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.”
John Diefenbaker (1895–1979) 13th Prime Minister of Canada
March 11, 1958.
Kenneth R. Andrews (1916–2005) Business scholar
Source: Quote, The Concept of Strategy, 1971, p. 88 (in 1980 edition)
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Breaks