Martin Luther King, Jr.
(1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.”
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Upton Sinclair
,
book
The Profits of Religion
The Profits of Religion (1918)
Context: Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse. There is, I discover, a regular propaganda on foot; a long time ago — no man can recall how far back — the Wholesale Pickpockets made the discovery of the ease with which a man's pockets could be rifled while he was preoccupied with spiritual exercises, and they began offering prizes for the best essays in support of the practice. Now their propaganda is everywhere triumphant, and year by year we see an increase in the rewards and emoluments of the prophets and priests of the cult. The ground is covered with stately temples of various designs, all of which I am told are consecrated to Bootstrap-lifting.
Introductory, "Bootstrap-lifting"
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“Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest.”
Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.”
Newton N. Minow
(1926) United States attorney and former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
Speech to the National Association of Broadcasters, May 9, 1961 (the Wasteland Speech)
Context: When television is good, nothing--not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers--nothing is better.
But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you--and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.
Introductory, "Bootstrap-lifting"
The Profits of Religion (1918)
Joshua Jackson
(1978) Canadian actor
In the article 'What I know about women...' in Observer Women's Magazine (February 2007)
Context: There'll always be tension between male and female friends - we're animals after all, wired to accept each other on a sexual level at times. Of course we all agree to a variety of social restraints, but it doesn't mean the basic impulses aren't there, and I don't think sex is an unhealthy impulse. It's only when you try to hide it and subvert it that it manifests itself in ugly ways.
“How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!”
Samuel Adams
(1722–1803) American statesman, Massachusetts governor, and political philosopher
Letter to John Pitts (21 January 1776) http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/3sdms10.txt
“Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”
Variant: Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 11, Finds Print of Man's Foot on the Sand.
“Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.”
Brian W. Aldiss
book
Hothouse
Source: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 1 (first line)
Cesare Pavese
(1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
Source: The moon and the bonfire (1950), Chapter XI, p. 67
