Ibid. (May 30, 2014) Part 2, Democracy Now!
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Undated manuscript, "The Eternal Significance of Christ", an outline of a sermon on 2 Corinthians, at the King Center http://www.thekingcenter.org/archive/document/eternal-significance-christ
“You can’t change what you don’t understand.”
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 17.
Raymond Geuss book Philosophy and Real Politics
Source: Philosophy and Real Politics (2008), p. 38.
“If you can understand human behavior, it can’t hurt you nearly as much.”
Carol Plum-Ucci (1957) American writer
Source: What Happened to Lani Garver
“Can’t you understand what an important task we’ve been entrusted with?”
Ken Grimwood book Replay
“By whom, or what? God? This whole experience has made me agree even more with Camus: if there is a God, I despise Him.”
Source: Replay (1986), Chapter 11 (p. 149)
Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God?” <br class="br">During his conversation with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, as quoted in The Telegraph, in . In " Richard Dawkins: I can't be sure God does not exist http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9102740/Richard-Dawkins-I-cant-be-sure-God-does-not-exist.html"
Akira Kurosawa (1910–1998) Japanese film maker
Criterion Collection essay on Rashamon, excerpted from Something Like an Autobiography as translated by Audie E. Bock (1982) http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/196-akira-kurosawa-on-rashomon <br class="br">Context: Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing. This script portrays such human beings — the kind who cannot survive without lies to make them feel they are better people than they really are. It even shows this sinful need for flattering falsehood going beyond the grave — even the character who dies cannot give up his lies when he speaks to the living through a medium. Egoism is a sin the human being carries with him from birth; it is the most difficult to redeem. This film is like a strange picture scroll that is unrolled and displayed by the ego. You say that you can’t understand this script at all, but that is because the human heart itself is impossible to understand. If you focus on the impossibility of truly understanding human psychology and read the script one more time, I think you will grasp the point of it.
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
She said softly, “I have tried not to love you and, as you see, I have failed.”
Source: Empire novels (1950–1952), The Stars, Like Dust (1951), Chapter 19 “Defeat!” (p. 163)
