Pamela Geller (1958) blogger, author, political activist, and commentator
"Pamela Geller speaks to the Sugar Land Tea Party in Sugar Land, Texas" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLzlQ7WrvfQ&t=0h28m21s, Sugar Land, Texas
2010s, Address to the United States Congress, Inauguration of the Jubilee Year of Mercy
Pamela Geller (1958) blogger, author, political activist, and commentator
"Pamela Geller speaks to the Sugar Land Tea Party in Sugar Land, Texas" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLzlQ7WrvfQ&t=0h28m21s, Sugar Land, Texas
David McNally (1953) Canadian political scientist
Source: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 1, This Is What Democracy Looks Like, p. 23
“All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.”
Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
Johan Huizinga (1872–1945) Dutch historian
De historie kan niets voorspellen, behalve één ding: dat geen groote wending in de menschelijke verhoudingen ooit uitkomt in den vorm, waarin vroeger levenden zich haar hebben kunnen verbeeld.
Source: In the Shadow of Tomorrow (1936), Ch. 20.
“Gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history.”
Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid
Source: The Red Pyramid
“Nothing fundamental separates the course of human history from the course of physical history.”
Edward O. Wilson (1929) American biologist
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998)
“Humans sometimes make surprising choices, and human history is full of uncertainties.”
Joseph Nye (1937) American political scientist
Source: Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History (6th ed., 2006), Chapter 2, Origins of the Great Twentieth Century Conflicts, p. 51.