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American author and journalist 1899–1961Related quotes
M. John Harrison book Light
Source: Light (2002), Chapter 4 “Operations of the Heart” (p. 29)
“Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.”
Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire
Source: Catching Fire
Jacques Ellul (1912–1994) French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarchist
The Betrayal by Technology (1993 film)
Context: In a society such as ours, it is almost impossible for a person to be responsible. A simple example: a dam has been built somewhere, and it bursts. Who is responsible for that? Geologists worked out. They examined the terrain. Engineers drew up the construction plans. Workmen constructed it. And the politicians decided that the dam had to be in that spot. Who is responsible? No one. There is never anyone responsible. Anywhere. In the whole of our technological society the work is so fragmented and broken up into small pieces that no one is responsible. But no one is free either. Everyone has his own, specific task. And that's all he has to do.
Just consider, for example, that atrocious excuse… It was one of the most horrible things I have ever heard. The director of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was asked at the Nuremburg trials, “But didn’t you find it horrible? All those corpses?” He replied, “What could I do? I couldn’t process all those corpses. The capacity of the ovens was too small. It caused me many problems. I had no time to think about these people. I was too busy with the technical problem of my ovens.” That is the classic example of an irresponsible person. He carries out his technical task and isn’t interested in anything else.
Andrew Solomon (1963) American journalist
--Carol
Source: Far from the Tree, Ch. 11 Transgender, p 671.
“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Lord Mayor’s Banquet, Guildhall, London (9 November 1954) The Unwritten Alliance, page 195, Columbia University, NY (1966),page 195,
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Yuzuru Hanyu (1994) Japanese figure skater (1994-)
Other quotes, 2018 <br class="br">Original: (ja) 特に自分からコメントを常に発信したいなとは思ってないし、何よりも、自分がたくさんの方々に愛してもらってるのはすごく分かってるので…うん…あのー、何だろう? 特別自分から何かをしなくてもいいかなという風に思っています。 <br class="br">Source: Hanyu about his absence from social media in an interview https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/video/detail/yuzuru-hanyu-happy-to-say-nothing-at-all/ at the Olympics 2018, published 27 February 2018 on the Olympic Channel. (Retrieved 18 September 2020)
“Isn’t there anything you can do about the predator?”
Robert Sheckley book Dimension of Miracles
Carmody asked.
“Nothing. Nor would I if I could. Predation is a necessary circumstance. Even the Gods are eventually eaten by Fate. You will not be an exception to the universal rule.”
Chapter 21 (p. 136)
Dimension of Miracles (1968)