Alan Barth (1906–1979) American journalist
The Loyalty of Free Men (1951) http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/quote-b.htm.
Source: The Looking Glass Wars
Alan Barth (1906–1979) American journalist
The Loyalty of Free Men (1951) http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/quote-b.htm.
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
1970s, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975), The Wellspring of Reality
Context: We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief.... In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding. Specialization has bred feelings of isolation, futility, and confusion in individuals. It has also resulted in the individual's leaving responsibility for thinking and social action to others. Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
Andrew Sullivan (1963) Journalist, writer, blogger
"Torture and Conservatism" http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2006/07/torture_and_con.html, The Daily Dish (11 July 2006)
“American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.”
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat
Source: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 2, p. 60
“They wonder in silence and turn pale for the dubious thunderbolt.”
Mirantur taciti et dubio pro fulmine pallent.
Source: Thebaid, Book X, Line 920
“Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.”
Orhan Pamuk (1952) Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and Nobel Prize in Literature recipient
Source: My Name is Red
Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf, p. 242