Jared Lee Loughner (1988) Charged with 2011 Tucson shooting
December 8, 2010, video posting — www.kgun9.com, 9OYS Investigates: Who is Jared Loughner?, KGUN9, January 8, 2011, 2011-01-10 http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=13809065,
“I’m literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.”
Source: Parable of the Talents (1998), Chapter 20 (p. 405)
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Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/alan-moore-the-reluctant-hero-64407.html <br class="br">Context: If I write a crappy comic book, it doesn't cost the budget of an emergent Third World nation. When you've got these kinds of sums involved in creating another two hours of entertainment for Western teenagers, I feel it crosses the line from being merely distasteful to being wrong. To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate — unlike most films.
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat
Interview with John Newark (1990) from Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith (2004), ed. James Ronald Stanfield and Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield
“I want them [criminals] to literally feel terror at the thought of committing offences.”
Priti Patel (1972) British politician
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Nigel Farage (1964) British politician and former commodity broker
Segment from an article on the UKIP website, 31 May 2012. On the edge of social breakdown http://www.ukip.org/content/latest-news/2681-on-the-edge-of-social-breakdown <br class="br">2012
“I don't believe in things literally for children. That's a reduction.”
Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books
As quoted in "Sendak Is Forming Company for National Children's Theater" by Eleanor Blau, in The New York Times (25 October 1990) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0D61F3DF936A15753C1A966958260&scp=1&sq=Sendak+reduction&st=nyt
“The only dumb idea is, quite literally, the one that is unspoken.”
Tim Hurson (1946) Creativity theorist, author and speaker
Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking
“Humans can be literally poisoned by false ideas and false teachings.”
Alfred Korzybski (1879–1950) Polish scientist and philosopher
Source: Manhood of Humanity (1921), p. 71. Chapter: What is Man?
Context: Humans can be literally poisoned by false ideas and false teachings. Many people have a just horror at the thought of putting poison into tea or coffee, but seem unable to realize that, when they teach false ideas and false doctrines, they are poisoning the time-binding capacity of their fellow men and women. One has to stop and think! There is nothing mystical about the fact that ideas and words are energies which powerfully affect the physico-chemical base of our time-binding activities. Humans are thus made untrue to "human nature." … The conception of man as a mixture of animal and supernatural has for ages kept human beings under the deadly spell of the suggestion that, animal selfishness and animal greediness are their essential character, and the spell has operated to suppress their REAL HUMAN NATURE and to prevent it from expressing itself naturally and freely.
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
