Jeffrey H. Schwartz (1948) American anthropologist
Source: What the Bones Tell Us (1997), Ch. 1
Preface.
A History of Science Vol.2 Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C. (1959)
Jeffrey H. Schwartz (1948) American anthropologist
Source: What the Bones Tell Us (1997), Ch. 1
Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist
Talk titled "The Lessons of Vietnam", March 31, 1985; Republished at " Program Information: The Lessons of Viet Nam http://www.radio4all.net/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=11149" at radio4all.net, accessed May 23, 2014. <br class="br">Quotes 1960s-1980s, 1980s <br class="br">Context: It goes back to the days when we were defending ourselves against the internal aggression of the Native American population, who we incidentally wiped out in the process. In the post World War II period, we've frequently had to carry out defense against internal aggression, that is against Salvadorans in El Salvador, Greeks in Greece, against Filipinos in the Philippines, against South Vietnamese in South Vietnam, and many other places. And the concept of internal aggression has been repeatedly invoked in this connection, and quite appropriately. It's an interesting concept, it's one that George Orwell would certainly have admired, and it's elaborated in many ways in the internal documentary record.
Callimachus (-310–-240 BC) ancient poet and librarian
A. W. Bulloch, in The Cambridge History of Classical Literature (1989), edited by P. E. Easterling and B. M. W. Knox, vol. 1, part 4, p. 9
Criticism
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
1900s <br class="br">Context: You ask that Mr. Taft shall "let the world know what his religious belief is." This is purely his own private concern; it is a matter between him and his Maker, a matter for his own conscience; and to require it to be made public under penalty of political discrimination is to negative the first principles of our Government, which guarantee complete religious liberty, and the right to each to act in religious affairs as his own conscience dictates. Mr. Taft never asked my advice in the matter, but if he had asked it, I should have emphatically advised him against thus stating publicly his religious belief. The demand for a statement of a candidate’s religious belief can have no meaning except that there may be discrimination for or against him because of that belief. Discrimination against the holder of one faith means retaliatory discrimination against men of other faiths. The inevitable result of entering upon such a practice would be an abandonment of our real freedom of conscience and a reversion to the dreadful conditions of religious dissension which in so many lands have proved fatal to true liberty, to true religion, and to all advance in civilization.<br><br> Letter to Mr. J.C. Martin concerning religion and politics (6 November 1908) http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/images/research/txtspeeches/307.txt
Rousas John Rushdoony (1916–2001) American theologian
Source: Writings, The Institutes of Biblical Law (1973), p. 574
Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933) Greek poet
Julian in Nicomedia http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=106&cat=1 <br class="br">Collected Poems (1992) <br class="br">Context: Things impolitic and dangerous:<br>praise for Greek ideals,<br>supernatural magic, visits to pagan temples.<br>Enthusiasm for the ancient gods
Pope Benedict XVI (1927) 265th Pope of the Catholic Church
2006, Faith, Reason and the University — Memories and Reflections (2006)
“The struggle against the religious absurdity is more than ever a necessity today.”
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…
1900s, God Does Not Exist (1904)
Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet
The Foundations of Indian Culture (1953), p. 31
Kirby Page (1890–1957) American clergyman
"The Commercial Motive" Christian Century 40 (Feb 22, 1923)