Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate
News summaries (31 December 1969)
Source: Power Without Property, 1959, p. 75; As cited in: Richard Brinkman (2013) Corporate Pharaohs: A Vicious Circle of Globalization. p. 249.
Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate
News summaries (31 December 1969)
“The whole of arithmetic now appeared within the grasp of mechanism.”
Charles Babbage (1791–1871) mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable c…
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864), ch. 8 "Of the Analytical Engine"
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864)
“The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power - we must have a dispersion of power.”
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer
Milton Friedman - Big Business, Big Government http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_T0WF-uCWg
“The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician
On Hallam's Constitutional History (1828)
Yvor Winters (1900–1968) American poet and literary critic
"John Sutter"
The Collected Poems of Yvor Winters (1960)
Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
Source: 1980s–1990s, Knowledge and Decisions (1980; 1996), Ch. 2 : Decision-Making Processes
Charles Perrow (1925–2019) American sociologist
Source: 1970s, Organizational Analysis: A Sociological View, 1970, p. 34
“Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage
Once more with pomp and greed and rage”
Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist
"The Next War".
Fairies and Fusiliers (1917)
Context: Kaisers and Czars will strut the stage
Once more with pomp and greed and rage;
Courtly ministers will stop
At home and fight to the last drop;
By the million men will die
In some new horrible agony...
Adolf A. Berle (1895–1971) American diplomat
Source: Power Without Property, 1959, p. 73; As cited in: Leslie A White, Robert Carniero, Benjamin Urish (2008) Modern Capitalist Culture. p. 387.