Thomas G. West (1945) American academic
Source: 2000s, Vindicating the Founders (2001), p. 28
C'est la lutte finale
Groupons-nous, et demain
L'Internationale
Sera le genre humain
The Internationale (1864)
Thomas G. West (1945) American academic
Source: 2000s, Vindicating the Founders (2001), p. 28
Walter Reuther (1907–1970) Labor union leader
Address before the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, India, April 5, 1956, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 131
1950s, Address before the Indian Council on World Affairs (1956)
Nikos Kazantzakis book The Saviors of God
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: We do not struggle for ourselves, nor for our race, not even for humanity.
We do not struggle for Earth, nor for ideas. All these are the precious yet provisional stairs of our ascending God, and they crumble away as soon as he steps upon them in his ascent.
In the smallest lightning flash of our lives, we feel all of God treading upon us, and suddenly we understand: if we all desire it intensely, if we organize all the visible and invisible powers of earth and fling them upward, if we all battle together like fellow combatants eternally vigilant — then the Universe might possibly be saved.
It is not God who will save us — it is we who will save God, by battling, by creating, and by transmuting matter into spirit.
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2011, Remarks by the President to Parliament in London, United Kingdom (May 2011)
John Brunner The Shockwave Rider
Bk. 1, Ch. "The Number You Have Reached"
The Shockwave Rider (1975)
“Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U. S. empire”
Hugo Chávez (1954–2013) 48th President of Venezuela
Hugo Chávez on the Islamic Republic Medal ceremony at Tehran University in Iran. July 30th, 2006. http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/07/30/D8J6NURG0.html <br class="br">2006
Nikos Kazantzakis book The Saviors of God
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: I strive to discover how to signal my companions before I die, how to give them a hand, how to spell out for them in time one complete word at least, to tell them what I think this procession is, and toward what we go. And how necessary it is for all of us together to put our steps and hearts in harmony.
To say in time a simple word to my companions, a password, like conspirators.
Yes, the purpose of Earth is not life, it is not man. Earth has existed without these, and it will live on without them. They are but the ephemeral sparks of its violent whirling.
Let us unite, let us hold each other tightly, let us merge our hearts, let us create — so long as the warmth of this earth endures, so long as no earthquakes, cataclysms, icebergs or comets come to destroy us — let us create for Earth a brain and a heart, let us give a human meaning to the superhuman struggle.
This anguish is our second duty.
“Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together”
Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)
Source: Presidency (1977–1981), Inaugural Address (1977)
Context: Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right.
Gene Roddenberry (1921–1991) American television screenwriter and producer
Interview (20 September 1988), included in Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5, DVD 7, "Mission Logs: Year Five", "A Tribute to Gene Roddenberry", 0:26:09)
Context: Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow — it's not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans. No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids — human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard. And Star Trek is about those things.
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist
From 1980s onwards, Critical Path (1981)