Anna Wulf, in "Free Women: 4" <!-- p. 454 -->
The Golden Notebook (1962)
Context: It isn’t only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It’s more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying. They are refusing emotion because at the end of very emotion are property, money, power. They work and despise their work, and so freeze themselves. They love but know that it’s a half- love or a twisted love, and so they freeze themselves.
“Abandoning open society for fear of terrorism is the only way to be defeated by it.”
Edward Snowden (1983) American whistleblower and former National Security Agency contractor
2016 <br class="br">Source: Twitter, February 9, 2016 https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/697077569250787328
Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: I’ve known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.
“People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.”
Robert Greene book The Art of Seduction
Source: The Art of Seduction
“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)
Yanis Varoufakis (1961) Greek-Australian political economist and author, Greek finance minister
Source: Chris Johnston and agencies. " Yanis Varoufakis accuses creditors of terrorism ahead of Greek referendum http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jul/04/greece-crisis-varoufakis-accuses-creditors-terrorism-referendum," in: theguardian.com, 4 July 2015; Quoted in Yanis Varoufakis: some of his best quotes http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/06/yanis-varoufakis-some-of-his-best-quotes, on theguardian.com, 6 July 2015, 15.32 BST.
