“I consider Xi Jinping the most dangerous enemy of open societies in the world.”
George Soros (1930) Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
Tweet 16 August 2021 https://twitter.com/georgesoros/status/1427244353714544644
On China (2019)
“I consider Xi Jinping the most dangerous enemy of open societies in the world.”
George Soros (1930) Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
Tweet 16 August 2021 https://twitter.com/georgesoros/status/1427244353714544644
Zhou Fengsuo (1967) Chinese human rights activist
Source: May 12, 2019 The Tiananmen Massacre, 30 years on – Survivor Q&A: Zhou Fengsuo https://hongkongfp.com/2019/05/12/tiananmen-massacre-30-years-survivor-qa-zhou-fengsuo/
Ian Bremmer (1969) American political scientist
The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall (2006).
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj (1963) Mongolian politician
Source: "Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj visits European Parliament" https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/eu-affairs/20150605STO63234/mongolian-president-tsakhiagiin-elbegdorj-visits-european-parliament (9 June 2015)
Howard Bloom (1943) American publicist and author
Source: Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century (2000), Ch.9 The Conformity Police
Alan Rusbridger (1953) British newspaper editor
Rusbridger (2011). As cited in: Benedetta Brevini, Arne Hintz, Patrick McCurdy (2013) Beyond WikiLeaks: Implications for the Future of Communications, Journalism and Society. p. 1994.
2010s
“Society is the most powerful conception in the world and society has no existence whatsoever.”
Virginia Woolf book Orlando: A Biography
Source: Orlando: A Biography (1928), Ch. 4
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
The earliest known appearance of this basic statement is a paraphrase of Darwin in the writings of Leon C. Megginson, a management sociologist at Louisiana State University. [[Megginson, Leon C., Lessons from Europe for American Business, Southwestern Social Science Quarterly, 1963, 44(1), 3-13, p. 4]] Megginson's paraphrase (with slight variations) was later turned into a quotation. See the summary of Nicholas Matzke's findings in "One thing Darwin didn't say: the source for a misquotation" http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/one-thing-darwin-didnt-say at the Darwin Correspondence Project. The statement is incorrectly attributed, without any source, to Clarence Darrow in Improving the Quality of Life for the Black Elderly: Challenges and Opportunities : Hearing before the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, first session, September 25, 1987 (1988). <br class="br">Misattributed
Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
As quoted in Improving the Quality of Life for the Black Elderly: Challenges and Opportunities : Hearing before the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, first session, September 25, 1987 (1988)
This quote's earliest known source is from Leon C. Megginson (see Charles Darwin)
Misattributed