Quotes 1990s, 1990-1994, Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, 1992
Context: We're not analyzing the media on Mars or in the eighteenth century or something like that. We're dealing with real human beings who are suffering and dying and being tortured and starving because of policies that we are involved in, we as citizens of democratic societies are directly involved in and are responsible for, and what the media are doing is ensuring that we do not act on our responsibilities, and that the interests of power are served, not the needs of the suffering people, and not even the needs of the American people who would be horrified if they realized the blood that's dripping from their hands because of the way they are allowing themselves to be deluded and manipulated by the system.
“Human beings suffer,
they torture one another,
they get hurt and get hard.”
Seamus Heaney The Cure at Troy
"Doubletake" from The Cure at Troy (1990) - The Cure at Troy http://www.panhala.net/Archive/The_Cure_at_Troy.html excerpts <br class="br">Poetry Quotes, The Cure at Troy <br class="br">Context: Human beings suffer,<br>they torture one another,<br>they get hurt and get hard.<br>No poem or play or song<br>can fully right a wrong<br>inflicted or endured.
Thomas Merton book The Seven Storey Mountain
Source: The Seven Storey Mountain (1948)
Context: Indeed, the truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers the most: and his suffering comes to him from things so little and so trivial that one can say that it is no longer objective at all. It is his own existence, his own being, that is at once the subject and the source of his pain, and his very existence and consciousness is his greatest torture.
"Sword" ("Ken"), quoted in 三島由紀夫短編集: Seven Stories, translated by John Bester (2002), p. 67.
“I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges.”
Neil Armstrong (1930–2012) American astronaut; first person to walk on the moon
Apollo mission press conference (1969); ABC World News http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/neil-armstrong-man-moon-dead/story?id=12325140&page=2#.UE0Vm67hdjw; also quoted in Of a Fire on the Moon (1970) by Norman Mailer, <!-- p. 46-47 --> and in First Man: The Life of Ronnie Petch the bender (2005) by James R. Hansen<!-- p. 399 --> <br class="br">Context: I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul … we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Remarks by President Obama at YSEALI Town Hall https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/07/remarks-president-obama-yseali-town-hall (7 September 2016) <br class="br">2016
“Dying more like animals than human beings.”
Giovanni Boccaccio book The Decameron
Non come uomini, ma quasi come bestie, morieno.
First Day, Introduction
The Decameron (c. 1350)
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926–2004) American psychiatrist
Source: Death: The Final Stage of Growth (1975), Ch. 6
