In response to a reporter's question, "Are there any circumstances under which you could imagine yourself not still being a candidate when the presidential primaries are held?" (July 2007)
2000s, 2007
“Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.”
William Ralph Inge The Idea of Progress
"The Idea of Progress" http://books.google.com/books?id=TbgYAAAAYAAJ&q=Devil+in+human+form, Romanes Lecture (27 May 1920), reprinted in Outspoken Essays: Second Series (1922)
“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
Jane Yolen (1939) American speculative fiction and children's writer
Source: Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
"No Religion is an Island", p. 264
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
Context: Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. And yet being alive is no answer to the problems of living. To be or not to be is not the question. The vital question is: how to be and how not to be?
The tendency to forget this vital question is the tragic disease of contemporary man, a disease that may prove fatal, that may end in disaster. To pray is to recollect passionately the perpetual urgency of this vital question.
Robin Cook (1931–1994) English crime writer
Source: Brain
Lionel Trilling book Sincerity and Authenticity
Source: Sincerity and Authenticity (1972), p. 64
Donald A. Norman book The Design of Everyday Things
Source: The Design of Everyday Things (1988, 2002), Ch. 6, p. 173.
Paul R. Ehrlich (1932) American scientist and environmentalist
Source: Top scientists warn of 'ghastly future of mass extinction' and climate disruption https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/13/top-scientists-warn-of-ghastly-future-of-mass-extinction-and-climate-disruption-aoe. The Guardian (2021)
