Joni Madraiwiwi (1957–2016) Fijian politician
Opening address to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference in Nadi, 6 September 2005.
Senate speech, 24 August, 2005 (excerpts)
Joni Madraiwiwi (1957–2016) Fijian politician
Opening address to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference in Nadi, 6 September 2005.
A.C. Cuza (1857–1947) Romanian politician
From "Ştiinţa antisemitismului" ("The Science of Anti-Semitism"), Apararea Nationala ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922, lst year.
Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books
Alan Moore on Anarchism (2009)
Context: If we were to take out all the leaders tomorrow, and put them up against a wall and shoot them — and it’s a lovely thought, so let me just dwell on that for a moment before I dismiss it — but if we were to do that, society would probably collapse, because the majority of people have had thousands of years of being conditioned to depend upon leadership from a source outside themselves. That has become a crutch to an awful lot of people, and if you were to simply kick it away, then those people would simply fall over and take society with them. In order for any workable and realistic state of anarchy to be achieved, you will obviously have to educate people — and educate them massively — towards a state where they could actually take responsibility for their own actions and simultaneously be aware that they are acting in a wider group: that they must allow other people within that group to take responsibility for their own actions. Which on a small scale, as it works in families or in groups of friends, doesn’t seem to be that implausible, but it would take an awful lot of education to get people to think about living their lives in that way. And obviously, no government, no state, is ever going to educate people to the point where the state itself would become irrelevant. So if people are going to be educated to the point where they can take responsibility for their own laws and their own actions and become, to my mind, fully actualized human beings, then it will have to come from some source other than the state or government.
Augusto Boal (1931–2009) Brazilian writer
World Theater Day Message, Geneva, Switzerland (2009)
Context: When we look beyond appearances, we see oppressors and oppressed people, in all societies, ethnic groups, genders, social classes and casts; we see an unfair and cruel world. We have to create another world because we know it is possible. But it is up to us to build this other world with our hands and by acting on the stage and in our own life.
“Social distance among ethnic or racial groups.”
James Grier Miller (1916–2002) biologist
Living Systems: Basic Concepts (1969)
“The Chinese people have always cherished goodwill towards the American people.”
Hu Jintao (1942) former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China
2000s, White House speech (2006)
Context: The Chinese people have always cherished goodwill towards the American people. In 1784, U. S. merchant ship, Empress of China, sailed to China, opening the friendly exchanges between our two peoples. In mid 19th century, several dozen thousand Chinese workers, working side-by-side with American workers and braving harsh conditions, built the great railway linking the East and the West of the American continent.
Mohammad Javad Zarif (1960) Iranian politician
2018-09-03, during his visit to Damascus on September 2018, IFP News
“One culture, one civilization, one language, and one ethnic group.”
Tarō Asō (1940) 92nd Prime Minister of Japan
About Japan, as quoted in "Ghosts of Wartime Japan Haunt Koizumi's Cabinet" http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=f6f50bd7a1687ece711a7ef721bb6fb8 (3 November 2005), by Christopher Reed, New America Media.