Roman Polanski (1933) Polish-French film director, producer, writer, actor, and rapist
I can remain silent no longer (2010)
I can remain silent no longer (2010)
Roman Polanski (1933) Polish-French film director, producer, writer, actor, and rapist
I can remain silent no longer (2010)
Roman Polanski (1933) Polish-French film director, producer, writer, actor, and rapist
I can remain silent no longer (2010)
Tom DeLay (1947) American Republican politician
On his indictment for conspiracy in a campaign finance scheme http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9507677/ (28 September 2005). <br class="br">2000s
Andrew Dickson White (1832–1918) American politician
Source: Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason (1915), p. ix
“… I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity…”
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
Charles Bowen (1835–1894) English judge
In the matter of Van Gelder's Patent (1888), 6 Rep. Pat. Cas. 28
“My purpose here is to denounce an idea which seems to be dangerous and false.”
Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
“The teaching of mathematics,” p. 71-72
On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (1968)
Context: My purpose here is to denounce an idea which seems to be dangerous and false. … Revolutionary trade unionists and orthodox communists are at one in considering everything that is purely theoretical as bourgeois. … The culture of a socialist society would be a synthesis of theory and practice; but to synthesize is not the same as to confuse together; it is only contraries that can be synthesized. … Marx’s principal glory is to have rescued the study of societies not only from Utopianism but also and at the same time from empiricism. … Humanity cannot progress by importing into theoretical study the processes of blind routine and haphazard experiment by which production has so long been dominated. … The true relation between theory and application only appears when theoretical research has been purged of all empiricism.
Eleanor Holmes Norton (1937) non-voting Delegate to to the United States Congress for the District of Columbia
During a speech before the U.S. Congress, April 19, 2007
[DC Vote, CBS Evening News, 1 June 2006]
James Comey (1960) American lawyer and the seventh director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
The reason I do those things is to ensure that we remember our mistakes and that we learn from them.
2010s, Hard Truths: Law Enforcement (2015)