William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
"On the Past and Future" <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)
On Coalition Government (1945)
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
"On the Past and Future" <br class="br"> Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)
Michelle Obama (1964) lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady of the United States
2000s, A Challenge to Overcome (November 2007)
“There is no destiny beyond and above ourselves; we are ourselves the architects of our future.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“We never escape our past. It is mirrored in our present. It repeats itself in our future.”
Morris West (1916–1999) Australian writer
Marius Melville in Ch. 17
Cassidy (1986)
Alex Salmond (1954) Scottish National Party politician and former First Minister of Scotland
Third Session of Parliament (June 30, 2007)
Elijah Cummings (1951–2019) U.S. Representative from Maryland
Speeech at the funeral of Freddie Gray (April 27, 2015)
Source: [Cobb, Jelani, October 18, 2019, What Elijah Cummings Meant to Baltimore, https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/what-elijah-cummings-meant-to-baltimore, New Yorker, New York, October 20, 2019]
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas
Five Essays on Liberty (2002), From Hope and Fear Set Free (1964)
Context: Knowledge increases autonomy both in the sense of Kant, and in that of Spinoza and his followers. I should like to ask once more: is all liberty just that? The advance of knowledge stops men from wasting their resources upon delusive projects. It has stopped us from burning witches or flogging lunatics or predicting the future by listening to oracles or looking at the entrails of animals or the flight of birds. It may yet render many institutions and decisions of the present – legal, political, moral, social – obsolete, by showing them to be as cruel and stupid and incompatible with the pursuit of justice or reason or happiness or truth as we now think the burning of widows or eating the flesh of an enemy to acquire skills. If our powers of prediction, and so our knowledge of the future, become much greater, then, even if they are never complete, this may radically alter our view of what constitutes a person, an act, a choice; and eo ipso our language and our picture of the world. This may make our conduct more rational, perhaps more tolerant, charitable, civilised, it may improve it in many ways, but will it increase the area of free choice? For individuals or groups?