Beyond 1984: The People Machines (1979)
Context: People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.
“They want four more years of hell.”
Teresa Heinz Kerry (1938) Portuguese–American businesswoman, widow of Sen. H. John Heinz III and wife of Secretary of State John Kerry
Dan Balz, "Heinz Kerry Has Retort for Bush Fans" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35665-2004Aug2.html, washingtonpost.com (2004-08-03) <br class="br">From a campaign rally speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (2004-08-02) after a Bush supporter chanted "Four more years!" on a bullhorn.
Russell Simmons (1957) American entrepreneur, producer and author
In 2008 to CNN. Quoted in "Russell Simmons Becomes a Stamp", in SoJones.com (1 December 2011) http://sojones.com/news/105789-russell-simmons-becomes-a-stamp/.
“If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heavens. No more damned magic.”
Jean Rhys book Wide Sargasso Sea
Source: Wide Sargasso Sea
“I began to feel the desire for something more; I wanted to do something to make things better.”
Mikhail Gorbachev (1931) General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
On his ambitions as a youth, in an Academy of Achievement interview (28 October 2000) http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/gor0int-1 <br class="br">1990s
“Ruling hell might be better than being a subject in hell, but not by much.”
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
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Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
