"A mighty fall from a moral high ground", 2014
Response to the 1949 asbestos miners' strike on CBC radio.
“Let us start by considering why the attempt to glorify science on its own cannot work.”
Are You an Illusion (2014). 6.
Context: Let us start by considering why the attempt to glorify science on its own cannot work. This is because human thought operates as a whole. It is an ecosphere, a vast and complex landscape, including, but not confined to, common sense. Science itself is, of course, not a single compartment but a large, thickly wooded area comprising many sciences, an area that merges into those around it. Those sciences vary from physics to anthropology and all of them are shot through with problems coming from areas outside them, such as philosophy and history. Biology, for instance, has to deal with philosophical problems about the concept of life and also with vast historical problems about evolution for which it uses historical methods, not those of physics.
“If the media would not have worked to malign Modi, who would know Modi today?”
2014, "'I was not silent on Gujarat riots,' says Modi", 2014
Nomination Acceptance Speech (29 August 2008) http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gG5l5C
2008
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Thirteen, The Whole- Earth Conspiracy
Source: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/15-quotes-from-chimamanda-adichie-that-have-change/
Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 218.
The Lesson, Stanza 1 (1899-1902).
Other works
"Sketches from Memory": The Notch of the White Mountains (1835)
Context: Let us forget the other names of American statesmen, that have been stamped upon these hills, but still call the loftiest — WASHINGTON. Mountains are Earth's undecaying monuments. They must stand while she endures, and never should be consecrated to the mere great men of their own age and country, but to the mighty ones alone, whose glory is universal, and whom all time will render illustrious.
1940s, Third Inaugural Address (1941)
Context: If we lose that sacred fire — if we let it be smothered with doubt and fear — then we shall reject the destiny which Washington strove so valiantly and so triumphantly to establish. The preservation of the spirit and faith of the Nation does, and will, furnish the highest justification for every sacrifice that we may make in the cause of national defense.
