Richard Pipes (1923–2018) American historian
Source: Russia Under The Bolshevik Regime (1994), p. 278
No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)
Richard Pipes (1923–2018) American historian
Source: Russia Under The Bolshevik Regime (1994), p. 278
Ferdinand de Saussure book Course in General Linguistics
Source: Cours de linguistique générale (1916), p. 33; as cited in: Adam Schaff (1962). Introduction to semantics, p. 9
L. Neil Smith (1946) American writer
"How Many Americans Does It Take to Change a Dim Bulb?"
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…
Mussolini's March 23, 1919 speech to announce the first Fasci di Combattimento (League of Combat). Published in Fascism, Anti-Fascism and the Resistance in Italy: 1919 to the Present, Stanislao G. Pugliese, Lanham: Maryland, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (2004) p. 43
1910s
Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet
Mrs. Alving, Act II
Ghosts (1881)
Context: I am half inclined to think we are all ghosts, Mr. Manders. It is not only what we have inherited from our fathers and mothers that exists again in us, but all sorts of old dead ideas and all kinds of old dead beliefs and things of that kind. They are not actually alive in us; but there they are dormant, all the same, and we can never be rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper and read it, I fancy I see ghosts creeping between the lines. There must be ghosts all over the world. They must be as countless as the grains of the sands, it seems to me. And we are so miserably afraid of the light, all of us.
John James Cowperthwaite (1915–2006) British colonial administrator
March 27, 1968, page 213.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council
Context: But what I really believe is that both he and Mr Wong are innocently guilty of the twentieth century fallacy that technology can be applied to the conduct of human affairs. They cannot believe that anything can work efficiently unless it has been programmed by a computer and have lost faith in the forces of the market and the human actions and reactions that make it up. But no computer has yet been devised which will produce accurate results from a diet of opinion and emotion. We suffer a great deal today from the bogus certainties and precisions of the pseudo-sciences which include all the social sciences including economics. An article I recently read referred to the academic’s “infernal economic arithmetic which ignores human responses”. Technology is admirable on the factory floor but largely irrelevant to human affairs.
Edmund White (1940) American novelist and LGBT essayist
Source: City Boy: My Life in New York in the 1960s and 70s
Michael Moore (1954) American filmmaker, author, social critic, and liberal activist
"Capitalism is evil," says new Michael Moore film, Mike, Collett-White, Reuters, 6 September 2009 http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE5850F320090906, <br class="br">2009
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) 10th Prime Minister of India
New York September 7, 2000 Asia Society Annual Dinner
Quotes from ataljee.org