“Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.”
Ernest Shackleton (1874–1922) Anglo-Irish polar explorer
“First, utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.”
Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries http://books.google.com/books?id=sCK8AAAAIAAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA60#v=onepage&q=&f=false (1971), p. 60.
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1990s, Speech at a Rally in Cuba (1991)
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Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876) Russian revolutionary, philosopher, and theorist of collectivist anarchism
As quoted in The Philosophy of Bakunin (1953) edited by G. P. Maximoff, p. 158<!-- (Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press) -->
Context: Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. Thus the individual, his freedom and reason, are the products of society, and not vice versa: society is not the product of individuals comprising it; and the higher, the more fully the individual is developed, the greater his freedom — and the more he is the product of society, the more does he receive from society and the greater his debt to it.
Alfred de Zayas (1947) American United Nations official
Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order exploring the adverse impacts of military expenditures on the realization of a democratic and equitable international order http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IntOrder/Pages/Reports.aspx. <br class="br">2015, Report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
Source: 1930s- 1950s, The End of Economic Man (1939), p. 9
Lech Kaczyński (1949–2010) Polish politician, president of Poland
Rzeczpospolita interview (March 2005)