Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, June, Speech about the Orlando Shooting (June 13, 2016)
2021, September 2021
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, June, Speech about the Orlando Shooting (June 13, 2016)
Fernando Pessoa book The Education Of the Stoic
The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive, Exact Change, Cambridge, 2005, p. 5
The Education of the Stoic
“In the total devastation of the heart which is the world”
Kathy Acker (1947–1997) American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet
Don Quixote, 1986. As quoted in Tactical Readings: Feminist Postmodernism in the Novels of Kathy Acker and Angela Carter, p. 91, by Nicola Pitchford. Editor Bucknell University Press, 2002. ISBN 0838754872.
Context: In the total devastation of the heart which is the world, the lands-lords rule. There is no way we can defeat the landslords. But under their reins and their watchful eyes.
I sail as the winds of lusts and emotions bare me. Everywhere and anywhere. I who will never own, whatever and whenever I want, I take.
Will Potter (1980) American journalist
Review https://www.eunicewong.com/books to the book The Sustainability Secret by Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn (2015).
Dawud Wharnsby (1972) Canadian musician
"Hi Neigbour, Salam Neighbour"
For Whom The Troubadour Sings (2010)
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1963, American University speech
“To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.”
Emil M. Cioran book History and Utopia
History and Utopia (1960)
“People have lost something important they took for granted, and that loss leaves them devastated.”
Kyung-sook Shin (1963) Korean writer
On the aftermath of the Korean War in “Kyung-Sook Shin: 'In my 20s I lived through an era of terrible political events and suspicious deaths'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/07/kyung-sook-shin-south-korea-interview in The Guardian (2014 Jun 7)