"When War Drums Roll" (17 September 2001)
2000s
Context: The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks... [Censorship of the news] is a given in wartime, along with massive campaigns of deliberately-planted "Dis-information". That is routine behavior in Wartime — for all countries and all combatants — and it makes life difficult for people who value real news.
“What Franz Kafka was to the first half of the 20th century, Philip K. Dick is to the second half.”
Art Spiegelman (1948) cartoonist from the United States
As quoted in The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick : Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings (1995) edited by Lawrence Sutin, p. x.
“All that I have written seems like straw compared to what has now been revealed to me.”
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
Remarks on being requested to resume writing, after a mystical experience while saying mass on or around 6 December 1273, as quoted in A Taste of Water : Christianity through Taoist-Buddhist Eyes (1990) by Chwen Jiuan Agnes Lee and Thomas G. Hand
All that I have written seems like straw to me.
As quoted in The Thought of Thomas Aquinas (1993), by Brian Davies, p. 9
Everything I have written seems like straw by comparison with what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.
As quoted in Sacred Games : A History of Christian Worship (1997) by Bernhard Lang, p. 323
Original: (la) Raynalde, non possum, quia omnia quae scripsi videntur mihi palae.
Theodore Kaczynski book Industrial Society and Its Future
"Disruption Of The Power Process In Modern Society", item 64
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
Elvis Presley (1935–1977) American singer and actor
Press conference (June 1972) as quoted in Elvis — Word for Word : What He Said, Exactly As He Said It (1999), by Jerry Osborne, p. 208
“Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.”
Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) British academic historian and Marxist historiographer
Divided Europeans: Understanding Ethnicities in Conflict http://books.google.co.in/books?id=4aECmbMMzIYC&pg=PA41 (1999), p. 41.
Mixmaster Morris (1965) English ambient DJ
Modulations: A history of electronic music
Tony Blair (1953) former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
As attributed without citation in Awake! magazine (anonymous), January 2015 http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/g201501/watching-the-world-religion/ <br class="br">2010s
“One of the greatest writers of [the 20th] century.”
Lord Dunsany (1878–1957) Irish writer and dramatist
Arthur C. Clarke, quoted on the backcover of Time and the Gods, the second volume of the Fantasy Masterworks series
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Begum Akhtar (1914–1974) Indian musician
In New Release: Begum Akhtar: Love’s Own Voice, 31 August 2009, 2 January 2014, Hindustan Times http://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/books/new-release-begum-akhtar-love-s-own-voice/article1-448844.aspx,
Rahul Gandhi (1970) Indian politician
Rahul Gandhi: India is going to be 21st century Saudi Arabia, Rahul Gandhi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YOZOM0lROs
