Rhonda Byrne (1951) Australian writer and producer
Source: Hero
When he returned to Parliament 2018 and left from the Center Party.
Rhonda Byrne (1951) Australian writer and producer
Source: Hero
“Toleration is not the opposite of Intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms.”
Thomas Paine book Rights of Man
Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)
Context: Toleration is not the opposite of Intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding Liberty of Conscience, and the other of granting it. The one is the Pope armed with fire and faggot, and the other is the Pope selling or granting indulgences. The former is church and state, and the latter is church and traffic.
“To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Stardust Memories (1980).
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist
Interview with Oriana Fallaci (2 December 1979), Corriere della Sera
Interviews
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Letter to The Black Commentator http://www.blackcommentator.com/47/47_cover.html (19 June 2003). <br class="br">2000-03
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 267
Jiang Yi-huah (1960) Taiwanese politician
Jiang Yi-huah (2017) cited in " Former premier wants to help youth go global http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2017/01/17/489623/Former-premier.htm" on The China Post, 17 January 2017
“Strong men are made by opposition; like kites they go up against the wind.”
Frank Harris (1856–1931) Irish journalist and rogue
Oscar Wilde ([1916] 1997) ch. 6, p. 59.
Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989) Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968), Dangers, The Threat to Intellectual Freedom
Context: Marx once wrote that the illusion that the "bosses know everything best" and "only the higher circles familiar with the official nature of things can pass judgment" was held by officials who equate the public weal with governmental authority.
Both Marx and Lenin always stressed the viciousness of a bureaucratic system as the opposite of a democratic system. Lenin used to say that every cook should learn how to govern.