Richard Leakey (1944) Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician
The Origin of Humankind (1994)
With the century, vol. 8
Richard Leakey (1944) Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician
The Origin of Humankind (1994)
Richard Wright book Black Boy
Black Boy (1945)
Context: (If I were a member of the class that rules, I would post men in all the neighborhoods of the nation, not to spy upon or club rebellious workers, not to break strikes or disrupt unions; but to ferret out those who no longer respond to the system in which they live. I would make it known that the real danger does not stem from those who seek to grab their share of wealth through force, or from those who try to defend their property through violence, for both of these groups, by their affirmative acts, support the values of the system in which they live. The millions that I would fear are those who do not dream of the prizes that the nation holds forth, for it is in them, though they may not know it, that a revolution has taken place and is biding its time to translate itself into a new and strange way of life.)
Hermann Rauschning (1887–1982) German politician
Source: The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West (1939), p. 9
Norbert Wiener book The Human Use of Human Beings
II. Progress and Entropy. p. 46-47
The Human Use of Human Beings (1950)
“Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day when dreaming ends.”
Baz Luhrmann (1962) Australian film director, screenwriter and producer
Source: Moulin Rouge!: The Splendid Book That Charts the Journey of Baz Luhrmann's Motion Picture
Werner Erhard (1935) Critical Thinker and Author
Source: Interview with USA Today, "Mankind Must Find a New Self Awareness", Dan Neuharth and Miles White, December 14, 1982