While being interviewed in the street during his dispute with several embassies for not paying Central London's congestion charge (late March 2006). The Times http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article697933.ece, 28 March 2006. <sup>[ New York Times comment http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/02/world/europe/02parking.html?_r=1&oref=slogin, 2 May 2006.]</sup>
“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.”
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Source: "Susan Sontag Finds Romance," interview by Leslie Garis, The New York Times (2 August 1992)
“Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.”
Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 230.
Kellyanne Conway (1967) American strategist and pollster
CNN, CNN Newsroom with Carol Costello, 2/10/16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3-imE2cDd0
Andrew Tobias (1947) American journalist
Source: The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982), Chapter 4, Tell Us The Odds, p. 70.
“[When the government says] 'everybody gets equal pay,' you get away from the whole American Dream.”
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
An unequal answer about equal pay (19 November 2015)
2010s, 2015
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 60e
“I don't actually have anything against anybody, unless their belief precludes everybody else's.”
Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film
" Joss Whedon: Atheist & Absurdist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EReyF2ZzXGA", comments made in a Q&A-session in Australia, while promoting his movie Serenity (2005) <br class="br">Context: I don't actually have anything against anybody, unless their belief precludes everybody else's. … I am an atheist and an absurdist and I have been for many years. I've actually taken a huge amount of flack for that.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Variant: You could attach prices to ideas. Some cost a lot some little. … And how do you pay for ideas? I believe: with courage.
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 52e
“Like an ambassador that beds a queen
With the nice caution of a sword between.”
John Cleveland (1613–1658) English poet
The Antiplatonic (1653).
