Tom Cruise (1962) American actor and film producer
Transcript of Tom Cruise on Scientology (January 16, 2008)
Afterburner with Bill Whittle: Dependence Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqZkTsmv4kw (3 July 2013) <br class="br">2010s
Tom Cruise (1962) American actor and film producer
Transcript of Tom Cruise on Scientology (January 16, 2008)
Federica Mogherini (1973) Italian politician
As quoted in "Mogherini: Italy will play a major role" in eunews (12 January 2014) http://www.eunews.it/en/2014/01/12/mogherini-italy-will-play-a-major-role/12911.
Jimmy Wales (1966) Wikipedia co-founder and American Internet entrepreneur
As quoted in "Wikimedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds," by Robin "Roblimo" Miller, Slashdot (28 July 2004)
Ivan Illich (1926–2002) austrian philosopher and theologist
Silence is a Commons (1982)
Context: The issue which I propose for discussion should therefore be clear: how to counter the encroachment of new, electronic devices and systems upon commons that are more subtle and more intimate to our being than either grassland or roads — commons that are at least as valuable as silence. Silence, according to western and eastern tradition alike, is necessary for the emergence of persons. It is taken from us by machines that ape people. We could easily be made increasingly dependent on machines for speaking and for thinking, as we are already dependent on machines for moving.
Robert Smith (musician) (1959) English singer, songwriter and musician
X-Press Magazine, Australia, September 2000
Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914) British businessman, politician, and statesman
Speech in Greenock (7 October 1903), quoted in The Times (8 October 1903), p. 8.
1900s
Context: Now the Cobden Club all this time rubs its hands in the most patriotic spirit and says, "Ah, yes; but how cheap you are buying." Yes, but think how that effects different classes in the community. Take the capitalist... His interest is to buy in the cheapest market, because he does not produce, but can get every article he consumes. He need not buy a single article in this country; he need not make a single article. He can invest his money in foreign countries and live upon the interest, and then in the returns of the prosperity of the country it will be said that the country is growing richer because he is growing richer. What about the working men? What about the class that depends upon having work in order to earn wages or subsistence at all? They cannot do without the work; and yet the work will go if it is not produced in this country. This is the state of things which I am protesting.
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Fourth Republican debate https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/10/well-be-annotating-the-gop-debate-here/ (10 November 2015).