Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 100
As quoted in "Putin's shadow falls over Finland" by Simon Tisdall, in The Guardian (14 June 2006) http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/jun/15/world.comment
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 100
R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943) British historian and philosopher
R. G. Collingwood (2005). "Man Goes Mad" in The Philosophy of Enchantment. Oxford University Press, 318.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Source: Introduction to 1961 edition of Sceptical Essays (1961)
Mohammad Hidayatullah (1905–1992) 11th Chief Justice of India
Full Court Reference in Memory of The Late Justice M. Hidayatullah
Noel Coward (1899–1973) English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer
Sheridan Morley, A Talent to Amuse (1985).
“I'm less unsure about taking political risks or social risks.”
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
Bono: The Rolling Stone Interview (2017)
Context: I'm less unsure about taking political risks or social risks. When I became an activist, people were like, "Really?" But they eventually accepted that. Then I started to be interested in commerce and the machinery of what got people out of poverty and into prosperity. And then a few people said, "You can't really go there, can you?"
I said, "But if you are an artist, you must go there." You and I have had the conversation over the years: What can the artist do? What is the artist not allowed to do, and are there boundaries? Now, I would say to my younger self: "Experiment more and don't let people box you in. There is nothing you can't put on your canvas if it is part of your life."
Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic
As quoted after his arrest for treason; see Treason: the story of disloyalty and betrayal in American history http://books.google.com/books?id=lXZKAAAAMAAJ&q=%E2%80%9CIf+a+man+isn%27t+willing+to+take+some+risk+for+his+opinions,+either+his+opinions+are+no+good+or+he%27s+no+good%E2%80%9D&dq=%E2%80%9CIf+a+man+isn%27t+willing+to+take+some+risk+for+his+opinions,+either+his+opinions+are+no+good+or+he%27s+no+good%E2%80%9D&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RgacUteRAZDYoATC1IDYCg&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAjgU by Nathaniel Weyl (1950), p. 400
“A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 147
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand author
Source: Journal entry (14 October 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)