Paul Tsongas (1941–1997) American politician
1992 Democratic National Convention. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/16/news/under-big-top-excerpts-remarks-delivered-tsongas-brown-convention.html
“The science or art of war requires a freedom of thought, and leisure to reflect upon the various incidents that daily occur, which cannot be had where the whole of one's time is engrossed in clerical employments. The time devoted to this employment is not the only injury I feel; but it confines my thoughts as well as engrosses my time. It is like a merchandise of small wares.”
Letter to George Washington (July 1776)
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Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
8 November 1943
Variant: If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Pt. 1, ch. 11
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952) Soviet diplomat
The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)
“Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
Source: Utopia of Usurers (1917), p. 31
Bob Black (1951) American anarchist
The Libertarian as Conservative (1984)
Context: You might object that what I’ve said may apply to the minarchist majority of libertarians, but not to the self-styled anarchists among them. Not so. To my mind a right-wing anarchist is just a minarchist who’d abolish the state to his own satisfaction by calling it something else. But this incestuous family squabble is no affair of mine. Both camps call for partial or complete privatization of state functions but neither questions the functions themselves. They don’t denounce what the state does, they just object to who’s doing it. This is why the people most victimized by the state display the least interest in libertarianism. Those on the receiving end of coercion don’t quibble over their coercers’ credentials. If you can’t pay or don’t want to, you don’t much care if your deprivation is called larceny or taxation or restitution or rent. If you like to control your own time, you distinguish employment from enslavement only in degree and duration.
Vitruvius book De architectura
Introduction, Sec. 3
De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book V
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
The Point of View for My Work as An Author, Soren Kierkegaard, translated by Walter Lowrie 1939, 1962 P. 77
1840s, The Point of View for My Work as an Author (1848)
Richard Long (1945) artist
Richard Long (1982), cited in: Description of the exhibition Concentrations IX: Richard Long, March 31–July 8, 1984 at the Dallas Museum of Art http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth224905/m1/1/. <br class="br">1980s