Cory Doctorow on the Open Rights Group (Time: 3:25) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Cory_Doctorow_on_the_Open_Rights_Group.webm <br class="br">Context: As someone once said, "Just because you're not interested in politics does not mean that politics won't be interested in you." And staying away from politics either because you think tech will make laws irrelevant or because there's no good way to influence laws just opens the field for people who don't cherish either of those illusions to make things very bad indeed.
“People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled 'politics.”
Douglas Hurd (1930) British Conservative politician and novelist
Interview with Rhian Harris about the Tories then and now http://www.cherwell.org/news/world/2008/05/15/douglas-hurd (15 May 2008)
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
Pt. 2, ch. 16
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Elton Mayo (1880–1949) Australian academic
Source: Democracy and freedom. 1919, p. 43; Cited in: John Cunningham Wood, Michael C. Wood (eds). George Elton Mayo: Critical Evaluations in Business and Management, Volume 1. 2004, p. 78
“I take small interest in politics,” he said. “The subject repels me.”
Ken MacLeod book Learning the World
Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 14 “The Extraordinary and Remarkable Ship” (p. 232)
“I'm interested in politics, but I'm out of politics.”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2010s, 2011, Speech at the Gerald R. Ford Foundation (2011)
Context: I'm interested in politics, but I'm out of politics. You know, I like to watch it.
Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)
Page 141
2000s, Promises to Keep (2008)
“Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
“Just because you're paranoid, does not mean they're not out to get you.”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
Song lyrics, Nevermind (1991)
Variant: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
Source: This quote is generally attributed to Joseph Heller from his novel Catch-22, although it appears to be from the film version only (screenplay by Buck Henry.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AParanoia Territorial Pissings.
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
Letter to Robert Bridges (24 October 1883)
Letters, etc
Context: You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing, interest ceases also... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest;... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest.
