“Every country has its own mafia. In Russia, the mafia has its own country.”
Garry Kasparov (1963) former chess world champion
2000s
President Maduro's speech at the United Nations General Assembly (excerpts), 26 September 2018
“Every country has its own mafia. In Russia, the mafia has its own country.”
Garry Kasparov (1963) former chess world champion
2000s
Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis (1914–1975) Greek architect
Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 11, The polis, p. 154
Louis Sullivan (1856–1924) American architect
Emotional Architecture as Compared to Intellectual (1894)
Context: The human mind in all countries having gone to the uttermost limit of its own capacity, flushed with its conquests, haughty after its self-assertion upon emerging from the prior dark age, is now nearing a new phase, a phase inherent in the nature and destiny of things.
The human mind, like the silk-worm oppressed with the fullness of its own accumulation, has spun about itself gradually and slowly a cocoon that at last has shut out the light of the world from which it drew the substance of its thread. But this darkness has produced the chrysalis, and we within the darkness feel the beginning of our throes. The inevitable change, after centuries upon centuries of preparation, is about to begin.
Harold Macmillan (1894–1986) British politician
Speech ('The Future of Conservatism') to the 1912 Club (16 February 1926), quoted in The Times (18 February 1926), p. 9.
1920s-1950s
Daniel Inouye (1924–2012) American politician from Hawaii, Medal of Honor recipient and World War II veteran
Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition (Iran-Contra hearings) (1987) <br class="br"> Video of Inouye's excerpt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbFphX5zb8w <br class="br"> Daniel K. Inouye: Reference of excerpt http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Daniel-K.-Inouye <br class="br"> The Mission of Sheltron: Reference http://www.sheltron.us/sheltron/introduction.html
Cynthia Nixon (1966) American actress
As quoted in New York Gubernatorial Candidate Cynthia Nixon Calls ICE a 'Terrorist Organization' https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/New-York-Gubernatorial-Candidate-Cynthia-Nixon-ICE-Terrorist-Organization-NYC-486273771.html (June 22, 2018) by R. Darren Price, WNBC
Edward Heath (1916–2005) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1970–1974)
Speech in Paris (5 May 1970), quoted in The Times (24 December 1970), p. 3
Leader of the Opposition
Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
Source: Resist Not Evil (1904), p. 27
Sidney Sheldon (1917–2007) American writer
Source: The Sky is Falling