In a letter to Frederic George Young of the University of Oregon, as quoted in Women of the Gold Rush https://archive.org/stream/womenofgoldrusht00vict#page/n17/mode/2up
Angel Chooi Malaysian teacher, model, online streamer and cosplayer
Source: Angel Chooi (2021) cited in " This 26-yr-old ex-kindergarten teacher earns at least $10K/mth as a livestream influencer https://vulcanpost.com/772108/angel-chooi-livestream-influencer-bigo-singapore" on Vulcan Post, 14 December 2021.
Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure
Source: L’Expérience Intérieure (1943), p. 7
Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
is generally a scientific one.
Source: 2010s, The Moral Landscape (2010), p. 143–144
Clarence Thomas (1948) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1990s, I Am a Man, a Black Man, an American (1998)
Gerald Ford (1913–2006) American politician, 38th President of the United States (in office from 1974 to 1977)
Quoted variant: History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
1970s, State of the Union Address (1975)
Robert Fulghum (1937) American writer
Words I Wish I Wrote (1997)
Context: My convictions have validity for me because I have experimented with the compounds of ideas of others in the laboratory of my mind. And I've tested the results in the living out of my life. At twenty-one, I had drawn an abstract map based on the evidence of others. At sixty, I have accumulated a practical guide grounded in my own experience. At twenty-one, I could discuss transportation theory with authority. At sixty, I know which bus to catch to go where, what the fare is, and how to get back home again. It is not my bus, but I know how to use it.
Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist
Source: 1930s, Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935), p. 302, as cited in Women and Politics : An International Perspective (1987) by Herbert A. Applebaum, p. 18
“Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
“Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”
William Howard Taft (1857–1930) American politician, 27th President of the United States (in office from 1909 to 1913)
"Anti-Semitism in the United States", address to the Anti Defamation League in Chicago, Illinois (23 December 1920).
Bertrand Russell book Religion and Science
Religion and Science (1935)
1930s
Context: Why in any case, this glorification of man? How about lions and tigers? They destroy fewer animals or human lives than we do, and they are much more beautiful than we are. How about ants? They manage the Corporate State much better than any Fascist. Would not a world of nightingales and larks and deer be better than our human world of cruelty and injustice and war? The believers in Cosmic Purpose make much of our supposed intelligence, but their writings make one doubt it. If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result of all my efforts.
