Nigel Cumberland (1967) British author and leadership coach
Source: Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), p.35
Speech at the May 1927 NSDAP provincial congress in Stuttgart. Dietrich Orlow, The Nazi Party 1919-1945: A Complete History, Enigma Books (2010) p. 61
1920s, Zweites Buch (1928)
Nigel Cumberland (1967) British author and leadership coach
Source: Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), p.35
Mario Vargas Llosa (1936) Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, and essayist
Interview https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/02/27/inenglish/1519736544_699462.html, El País, 27/02/2018
Lawrence Lessig book Free Culture
Free Culture (2004)
Context: The most powerful and sexy and well loved of lobbies really has as its aim not the protection of "property" but the rejection of a tradition. Their aim is not simply to protect what is theirs. Their aim is to assure that all there is is what is theirs.
It is not hard to understand why the warriors take this view. It is not hard to see why it would benefit them if the competition of the public domain tied to the Internet could somehow be quashed.
Stephen Spender (1909–1995) English poet and man of letters
Life and the Poet (1942)
Context: The ultimate aim of politics is not politics, but the activities which can be practised within the political framework of the State. Therefore an effective statement of these activities — e. g. science, art, religion — is in itself a declaration of ultimate aims around which the political means will crystallise … a society with no values outside of politics is a machine carrying its human cargo, with no purpose in its institutions reflecting their care, eternal aspirations, loneliness, need for love.
“An excuse is a polite rejection. Men are not afraid of 'ruining the friendship.”
Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“All political action aims at either preservation or change.”
Leo Strauss (1899–1973) Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservativism
"What Is Political Philosophy" in The Journal of Politics, 19(3) (Aug. 1957) by the Southern Political Science Association, p. 343
Context: All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse; when desiring to change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse.
Ventseslav Konstantinov (1940–2019) Bulgarian writer and Translator
As quoted in "From Bach to Kafka, or... about temptation - An interview by Emil Bassat http://darl.eu/intervie/84_05_30.htm" in Sofia News (30 May 1984).
Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927–2013) Polish politician and prime minister
"Inaugural address of Premier Tadeusz Mazowiecki" https://polishfreedom.pl/en/document/statement-inaugural-address-of-the-prime-minister-tadeusz-mazowiecki-delivered-at-the-seym-session-on-12th-september-1989 (12 September 1989)
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
1910s, Political Ideals (1917)
Richard A. Horsley (1939) Biblical scholar
Source: Religion and Empire: People, Power, and the Life of the Spirit (2003), p. 48