Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
Article 9 <br class="br"> "Declaration of Rights" http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/PShelley/declarat.html (1812)
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Sovereign Maxims
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
Article 9 <br class="br"> "Declaration of Rights" http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/PShelley/declarat.html (1812)
“That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Pearls of Wisdom
“How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.”
Hanif Kureishi (1954) English playwright, screenwriter, novelist
Source: Intimacy: das Buch zum Film von Patrice Chéreau
Dinesh D'Souza (1961) Indian-American political commentator, filmmaker, author
2002-10-01
How to Harpoon a Liberal
Letters to a Young Conservative
Basic Books
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Stanley Spencer (1891–1959) English painter
As quoted in Sermon by Artists (1934) Golden Cockerel Press
Oscar Wilde book The Soul of Man under Socialism
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Context: Art is Individualism, and Individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. Therein lies its immense value. For what it seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.
Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) American journalist and radio broadcaster
"Dilemma of a Pacifist"(1937)
Context: It is true that the techniques of war are constantly "improved" as the genius of an age of invention is put in the service of the war machine. But that is not what is most disturbing. What is revolutionary is that the minds of men, women and children are being deliberately trained, directed, distorted, by every conceivable instrument of education and propaganda, to make them tolerant of war, receptive of war, prepared for war, lovers of war. The greatest menace in the world is not poison gas. There are gas masks against that. The menace is poisoned words, poisoned ideas.
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Source: Epigrams, p. 350