Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
— George Orwell, book 1984
Source: 1984
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Mircea Eliade (1907–1986) Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer and philosopher
Myth and Reality (1963)
Context: In one way or another one "lives" the myth, in the sense that one is seized by the sacred, exalting power of the events recollected or re-enacted.
"Living" a myth, then, implies a genuinely "religious" experience, since it differs from the ordinary experience of everyday life. The "religiousness" of this experience is due to the fact that one re-enacts fabulous, exalting, significant events, one again witnesses the creative deeds of the Supernaturals; one ceases to exist in the everyday world and enters a transfigured, auroral world impregnated with the Supernaturals' presence. What is involved is not a commemoration of mythical events but a reiteration of them. The protagonists of the myth are made present; one becomes their contemporary. This also implies that one is no longer living in chronological time, but in the primordial Time, the Time when the event first took place. This is why we can use the term the "strong time" of myth; it is the prodigious, "sacred" time when something new, strong, and significant was manifested. To re-experience that time, to re-enact it as often as possible, to witness again the spectacle of the divine works, to meet with the Supernaturals and relearn their creative lesson is the desire that runs like a pattern through all the ritual reiterations of myths. In short, myths reveal that the World, man, and life have a supernatural origin and history, and that this history is significant, precious, and exemplary.
Abd al-Karim Qasim (1914–1963) Prime Minister of Iraq
Speech delivered at the officers' club (June 16, 1959).
Principles of the 14th July Revolution (1959)
Adam Roberts book Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer
Part 2, Chapter 13, “Of Multitudes” (p. 240).
Jack Glass (2012)
“But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.”
At nos non imperium neque divitias petimus, quarum rerum causa bella atque certamina omnia inter mortales sunt, sed libertatem, quam nemo bonus nisi cum anima simul amittit.
Sallust (-86–-34 BC) Roman historian, politician
Source: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter XXXIII, section 5
“I have been seized by the power of a great affection.”
Brennan Manning book The Ragamuffin Gospel
p. 181 https://books.google.com/books?id=sUTZCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA181 <br class="br">1990s, The Ragamuffin Gospel (1990) <br class="br">Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
Ali Larijani (1958) Iranian philosopher, politician
The West Should Learn the Lesson of North Korea http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/864.htm September 2005. <br class="br">Iran's nuclear program
Marcellus Wiley (1974) American football player
Marcellus Wiley: NBA plan to paint 'Black Lives Matter' on courts 'not a good idea' https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/marcellus-wiley-nba-plan-to-paint-black-lives-matter-on-courts-not-a-good-idea (June 2020)
