“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.”
On Fairy-Stories (1939)
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Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books
The Believer interview (2013)
Context: Yeah, our view of reality, the one we conventionally take, is one among many. It’s pretty much a fact that our entire universe is a mental construct. We don’t actually deal with reality directly. We simply compose a picture of reality from what’s going on in our retinas, in the timpani of our ears, and in our nerve endings. We perceive our own perception, and that perception is to us the entirety of the universe. I believe magic is, on one level, the willful attempt to alter those perceptions. Using your metaphor of an aperture, you would be widening that window or changing the angle consciously, and seeing what new vistas it affords you.
“Technology is made by humans. If we modify our body with human creations we become more human.”
Neil Harbisson (1984) Catalan-Irish musician, artist and activist
As quoted in The Sun (15 May 2012). "Eye, Robot" http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/irishsun/irishsunnews/4317084/Eye-Robot.html
Lewis Pugh (1969) Environmental campaigner, maritime lawyer and endurance swimmer
Against fracking in the Karoo, 3 May 2011
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Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur
“In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.”
Aldo Leopold book A Sand County Almanac
Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "The Land Ethic", p. 210.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Address at Oyster Bay, New York (27 July 1904) http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/images/research/txtspeeches/104.txt, in response to the committee appointed to notify him of his nomination for the Presidency. <br class="br">1900s
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
1760s, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)
