Oui interview (1979)
Context: People have preposterous ideas about what those songs are about and what the music means. They start spouting all this shit that’s so far off the mark, it’s revolting. But if that’s how they derive pleasure, who am I to deprive them of it? Let ’em enjoy it. It’s there for their edification. But total comprehension is out of the question.
1960s, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
Letter to Archbishop Heenan (3 January 1965), quoted in A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Carmel Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes: Expanded Edition, ed. Alcuin Reid (2001), pp. 69, 71
“Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension.”
The Quotable Sir John
"The Designers and the Politicians" (1962), later published in Ideas and Integrities : A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure (1969), p. 234, and The Buckminster Fuller Reader (1970), p. 305
1960s
Context: So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they can impose upon the ignorance of man a monopoly of access to accurate processing of information and can fool even themselves by thought habits governing the becoming behavior of professional specialists, by disclaiming the necessity of, or responsibility for, comprehensive adjustment of the a priori thought to total reality of universal principles. The everywhere-relative velocities and momentums of interactions, of energetic phenomena of universe, are central to the preoccupations and realizations of the comprehensive designer. The concept of relativity involves high frequency of re-established awareness, and progressively integrating consideration of the respective, and also integrated dynamic complexities of the moving and transforming frame of reference and of the integrated dynamic complexities of the observed, as well as of the series of integrated sub-dynamic complexities, in respect to each of the major categories of the relatively moving frames of reference, of the observer and the observed. It also involves constant reference of all the reciprocating sub-sets to the comprehensive totality of non-simultaneous universe, from which naught may be lost.
1989-07-27
John
Harwood
Newt Gingrich: GOP's Bare-Knuckles Battler
St. Petersburg Times
1A, quoted in [2002-03-05, Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-conservative, David, Brock, Crown, 1st, 66-67, 9780812930993]; [2010, Stuck in the Sixties: Conservatives and Legacies of the 1960s, George, Rising, Xlibris, 9781456804848, 2010916124, 130, http://books.google.com/books?id=tnhQ_MJCTtQC&pg=PA130]
1980s
“Let's be totally intolerant towards intolerance.”
On the 2015 Dadri mob lynching incident, as quoted in " Oppn raises 'intolerance' issue in LS http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/oppn-raises-intolerance-issue-in-ls-115112600742_1.html" Business Standard (26 November 2015)
Law and its Administration http://books.google.com/books?id=_VUf45FZR7cC&pg=PA3&dq=%22Law+as+it+exists+in+the+modern+community%22&hl=en&ei=uCLsTKahLYSs8AbQ5dWIAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Law%20as%20it%20exists%20in%20the%20modern%20community%22&f=false (1915), p. 3.
“I don’t set out to speak a comprehensible language. But my language is authentic.”
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
