“The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting.”

— Stephanie Zacharek

Review http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2007/03/09/300/index.html of 300 (2007)

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American film critic 1963

Raymond Geuss book Philosophy and Real Politics

Source: Philosophy and Real Politics (2008), p. 17.

“I know you're not a stupid person, so why would you ask such a stunningly stupid question?”

Carl Hiaasen book Squeeze Me

Source: Novels, Squeeze Me (2020), Chapter 28

“In its studies and learned colloquy, Faz saw and felt the tales of Men. They seemed curiously convoluted, revolving about Self. What mattered most to those who loved tales was how they concluded. Yet all Men knew how each ended. Their little dreams were rounded with a sleep.
So the point of a tale was not how it ended, but what it meant. The great inspiring epic rage of Man was to find that lesson, buried in a grave.”

Gregory Benford (1941) Science fiction author and astrophysicist

Time’s Rub, pp. 260-261
In Alien Flesh (1986)

“‎Halt looked up at the trees above him.
"Why does this boy ask so many questions?" he asked the trees.
Naturally, they didn't answer.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Ruins of Gorlan

“Why is ultimately a question of purpose: Why do we exist? In most organizations, people are not encouraged to keep asking questions.”

Ikujiro Nonaka (1935) Japanese business theorist

"The Practical Wisdom of Ikujiro Nonaka," 2008

“Q: So, why do you write these strong female characters?
A: Because you’re still asking me that question.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

"American Rhetoric: Joss Whedon - Equality Now Address" (15 May 2006) http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/josswhedonequalitynow.htm

“But why?” he asked Deliamber.
The Vroon replied, “Why? is a useless question in matters of spiritual progress.”

Robert Silverberg book Lord Valentine's Castle

Book 3, Chapter 8 (p. 301)
Lord Valentine's Castle (1980)

“The questions we ask are "What?" and "How?" What are the facts and how are they related? If sometimes, in a moment of absent-mindedness or idle diversion, we ask the question "Why?"”

Carl L. Becker (1873–1945) American historian

the answer escapes us.
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-century Philosophers (1932)

“…Hunt asked me the question one week before the campaign, and basically it was, are you going to do something about Rumsfeld and the Vice President? And my answer was, they're going to stay on. And the reason why is I didn't want to inject a major decision about this war in the final days of a campaign. And so the only way to answer that question and to get you on to another question was to give you that answer.”

George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States

The President's reasoning for telling reporters in the Oval Office that the current Defense Secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, would be staying on, although Bush had already selected potential replacements. Given at a news conference http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/11/20061108-2.html (November 8, 2006)
2000s, 2006

“I would not like young people to ask this question, why were we born at all. I want them to ask every kind of question but for them to question why they have been born to a situation which does not assure them of their right to dignity and to freedom from want and from fear, that is not the kind of question I would want anyone to ask.”

Aung San Suu Kyi (1945) State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy

Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought Acceptance Speech (2013)

“The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting.”

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