Starhawk (1951) American author, activist and Neopagan
Source: Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex and Politics (1982), Ch. 1 : Power-Over and Power-From-WIthin, p. 13
Cardinal Winning Lecture (February 2, 2008)
Starhawk (1951) American author, activist and Neopagan
Source: Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex and Politics (1982), Ch. 1 : Power-Over and Power-From-WIthin, p. 13
“The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
From chapter one of The Devil Finds Work (orig. pub. 1976), reprinted in The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985
Context: The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their "vital interests" are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the "sanctity" of human life, or the "conscience" of the civilized world.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
"The Emotional Factor"Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.
Often paraphrased as "The Christian religion has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world."
1920s, Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
Context: You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress of humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or even mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
Henri de Lubac (1896–1991) Jesuit theologian and cardinal
Part 1. "The Eternal Feminine", Ch. 4, p. 73
The Eternal Feminine (1968)
Yuzuru Hanyu (1994) Japanese figure skater (1994-)
Interpretation of a Japanese interview, as quoted in the same The New York Times-article linked above, published 4 January 2018.
Other quotes, 2018
Tracey Emin (1963) English artist, one of the group known as Britartists or Young British Artists
"Artist Emin leaves us baffled" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1693678.stm BBC, (2001-12-06) <br class="br">Emin was given the Plain English Campaign's "Foot in Mouth" award for this remark, made in a newspaper interview.