András Petőcz (1959) Hungarian writer
"It is good to be a stranger" http://www.hungarianpresence.ca/Culture/Literature/varnai-interview-e.cfm. <br class="br">Interview
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William Shakespeare699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the stranger.”
Larry Harvey (1948–2018) Founder of Burning Man
Radical Inclusion
The 10 Principles of Burning Man (2004)
Context: Anyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.
“I began to feel the desire for something more; I wanted to do something to make things better.”
Mikhail Gorbachev (1931) General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
On his ambitions as a youth, in an Academy of Achievement interview (28 October 2000) http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/gor0int-1 <br class="br">1990s
“This is done now; we desire that it be done better.”
Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850) French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly
Source: Justice and Fraternity (1848), p. 313
Context: If socialists mean that under extraordinary circumstances, for urgent cases, the State should set aside some resources to assist certain unfortunate people, to help them adjust to changing conditions, we will, of course, agree. This is done now; we desire that it be done better. There is however, a point on this road that must not be passed; it is the point where governmental foresight would step in to replace individual foresight and thus destroy it.
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
Paris Review Interview (1990)
Context: I know when it’s the best I can do. It may not be the best there is. Another writer may do it much better. But I know when it’s the best I can do. I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, No. No, I’m finished. Bye. And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won’t do that.
Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Detachment (1947), p. 260
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990) English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist
Apologia pro vita sua (1968)
Context: The first thing I remember about the world — and I pray that it may be the last — is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which everyone has in some degree, and which is, at once, the glory and desolation of homo sapiens, provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.
Rudy Giuliani (1944–2001) American businessperson and politician, former mayor of New York City
News conference (12 June 2007); as quoted in "Giuliani Sets Forth a Dozen Priorities for His Presidency" in The New York Times (13 June 2007) http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/13/us/politics/13giuliani.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin
Greg Egan (1961) Australian science fiction writer and former computer programmer
New Scientist
Reviews
Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 616