Samuel Gompers (1850–1924) American Labor Leader[AFL]
What Does the Working Man Want? (speech), Louisville, KY (May 1890)
"Statement to the Court Upon Being Convicted of Violating the Sedition Act" (18 September 1918) http://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1918/court.htm <br class="br">Federal Court statement (1918)
Samuel Gompers (1850–1924) American Labor Leader[AFL]
What Does the Working Man Want? (speech), Louisville, KY (May 1890)
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 241.
Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) artist, author, esotericist
If we were not complacent we could not bear to live in a world in which these events were happening, these people were dying in the midst of plenty. We would not allow it to happen if we were not complacent. This is something which we need to remember... because this is the root of all the troubles in the world. It is a sign of our separateness. Complacency results from separation — the sense that we are separate and that by competition we become superior — and that superiority allows us to live what we call ‘well’. But we cannot live ‘well’ when two-thirds of the world are living and dying in absolute poverty. It is not possible to do so with impunity, and we do not. The result is crime. The result is catastrophe of one kind or another — governments which create wars for oil, for example. That is a catastrophe, and it is only possible because we are complacent, because we do not acknowledge the needs of millions of people who cannot take for granted what we take for granted: regular food, leisure, education and healthcare.
The World Teacher for All Humanity (2007)
Steve Jobs (1955–2011) American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
Interview in the PBS documentary Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires (1996)
1990s
“I live in a 9 million dollar turd.”
Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter
The Osbournes television show
Charlie Beck (1953) Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department
Quoted in: [December 5, 2014, http://www.laweekly.com/informer/2014/08/12/lapd-chief-charlie-beck-gets-another-5-years, Dennis Romero, August 12, 2014, LA Weekly, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck Gets Another 5 Years]
“There is nothing so timid as a million dollars.”
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)
A Testament (1957)
Isabel Paterson (1886–1961) author and editor
Source: The God of the Machine (1943), p. 122