“We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions.”
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004) American historian
Preface
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961)
Context: We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.
“In a way it made no difference, since nothing is permanent except our illusions.”
Robert Sheckley book Mindswap
Source: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 33 (pp. 156-157)
“The way out for our youths is jobs, jobs, jobs.”
Oby Ezekwesili (1963) Nigerian accountant, politician, human rights activist, convener of bring back our girls (Chibok girls) and pres…
Source: https://independent.ng/2019debate-30-powerful-quotes-from-oby-ezekwesili-reactions-to-questions/
“It's clear we can't vaccinate our way out of this.”
Peter A. McCullough (1962) American cardiologist and medical professor
July 29, 2021 on the Fox News program The Ingraham Angle ([Fox's effort to undermine vaccines has only worsened, Savillo, Rob; Monroe, Tyler, August 19, 2021, Media Matters for America, https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-effort-undermine-vaccines-has-only-worsened]; [Laura Ingraham guest: “It's clear we can't vaccinate our way out of this”, Media Matters Staff, July 29, 2021, https://www.mediamatters.org/laura-ingraham/laura-ingraham-guest-its-clear-we-cant-vaccinate-our-way-out, Media Matters for America])
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing
Cassandra (1860)
Context: Give us back our suffering, we cry to Heaven in our hearts — suffering rather than indifferentism; for out of nothing comes nothing. But out of suffering may come the cure. Better have pain than paralysis! A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore!
