“We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.”
"The Tercentenary of the 'Areopagitica'"
Two Cheers for Democracy (1951)
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Speech (11 December 2010), at official site of the Government of the Republic of Armenia http://www.gov.am/en/speeches/1/item/3114/
2010
The beauty of wind farms, New Scientist, 20, 2005-04-16, 2007-02-07 http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg18624956.400,
2016, Remarks on Donald Trump and the 2016 race
Variant: Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
“We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.”
Address by His Highness the Aga Khan to the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University,(15 May 2006)]
Space: What love's got to do with it - The Space Review (2004)
“We cannot change the history of the past.”
Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 1, Dead Stars, p. 3.