Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821–1877) Confederate Army general
To Captain John Morton, 1864. As quoted in May I Quote You, General Forrest? by Randall Bedwell.
1860s
2005, The World without Zionism, 2005 <br class="br">Source: http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=9898
Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821–1877) Confederate Army general
To Captain John Morton, 1864. As quoted in May I Quote You, General Forrest? by Randall Bedwell.
1860s
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
President Trump's inaugural address https://www.whitehouse.gov/inaugural-address (20 January 2017) <br class="br">2010s, 2017, January
“Anyone harms you will be wiped from the face of Earth.”
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (1954) Current President of Egypt
El-Sisi addressing the Egyptians. http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-hikes-assault-muslim-brotherhood-182705477.html <br class="br">2013
Lawrence H. Aller (1913–2003) astronomer
Interview of Lawrence Hugh Aller by David DeVorkin at Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 18, 1979 http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4481.html Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA.
Ali Khamenei (1939) Iranian Shiite faqih, Marja' and official independent islamic leader
IRNA (April 24, 2001)
2001
“Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean.”
Albert Camus book The Rebel
Source: The Rebel (1951), pp. 8 - 10 as quoted in Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd';(2002) by Avi Sagi, p. 44
Context: The absurd … is an experience to be lived through, a point of departure, the equivalent, in existence of Descartes' methodical doubt. Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can, by returning upon itself, open up a new field of investigation, and in the process of reasoning then pursues the same course. I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest. The first and only evidence that is supplied me, within the terms of the absurdist experience, is rebellion … Rebellion is born of the spectacle of irrationality, confronted with an unjust and incomprehensible condition.