Ralph Hodgson (1871–1962) British writer
"Stupidity Street"
Poems (1917)
Source: From Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 20
Ralph Hodgson (1871–1962) British writer
"Stupidity Street"
Poems (1917)
Benjamin R. Barber (1939–2017) US political scientist
… Acts of rebellion formerly regarded as manifestation of mere bestiality are now condoned as pathological outbursts; the possibility that such acts are the intentional projects of conscious men who are at once both demanding and expressing freedom is beyond the pale of conception. Thus are men robbed not only of their freedom but also of their dignity as creative human beings.
Source: Forced to be Free (1971), p. 68
William F. Buckley Jr. (1925–2008) American conservative author and commentator
"Publisher's Statement", in the first issue of National Review (19 November 1955).
Context: Radical conservatives in this country have an interesting time of it, for when they are not being suppressed or mutilated by Liberals, they are being ignored or humiliated by a great many of those of the well-fed Right, whose ignorance and amorality have never been exaggerated for the same reason that one cannot exaggerate infinity.
There are, thank Heaven, the exceptions. There are those of generous impulse and a sincere desire to encourage a responsible dissent from the Liberal orthodoxy. And there are those who recognize that when all is said and done, the market place depends for a license to operate freely on the men who issue licenses — on the politicians. They recognize, therefore, that efficient getting and spending is itself impossible except in an atmosphere that encourages efficient getting and spending. And back of all political institutions there are moral and philosophical concepts, implicit or defined. Our political economy and our high-energy industry run on large, general principles, on ideas — not by day-to-day guess work, expedients and improvisations. Ideas have to go into exchange to become or remain operative; and the medium of such exchange is the printed word.
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
TV Interview for Thames TV TV Eye (24 April 1979) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104040 <br class="br">Leader of the Opposition
Assata Shakur (1947) American activist who was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army
Source: Assata: An Autobiography
Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904–1966) The second Prime Minister of the Republic of India and a leader of the Indian National Congress party
About Patriotism
Haris Silajdžić (1945) Bosniak politician
Commenting on the NATO bombing campaign against Bosnian Serb forces, during an interview for the Death of Yugoslavia documentary, 1995 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW4KU4FQ8qo <br class="br">1990s
Martha Plimpton (1970) American actress
Source: Raising Hope’s Martha Plimpton (Interview, Daily Actor, April 19, 2011) http://www.dailyactor.com/2011/04/interview-martha-plimpton-raising-hope/
Lin Yutang book The Importance of Living
Source: The Importance of Living (1937), Ch. IV : On Having A Stomach, p. 46
Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer
Gowachin Aritch to Jorj X. McKie; p. 68
The Bureau of Sabotage series, The Dosadi Experiment (1977)