Latest quotes
page 82

Dave Leduc photo

“I will never eat animals or dairy for the rest of my life.”

Dave Leduc (1991) Canadian Lethwei fighter (born 1991)

On veganism
Source: https://plantbasednews.org/culture/sport/world-champion-lethwei-fighter-dave-leduc-says-being-vegan-is-a-philosophy-not-a-diet
2nd February, 2021

Henry Campbell-Bannerman photo

“Self-government is better than good government.”

Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836–1908) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Widely attributed to Campbell-Bannerman since at least 1910 https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1910/jul/12/parliamentary-franchise-women-bill-1. However it appears unattributed earlier https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rIFPAAAAYAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22self-government+is+better%22, and the concept pre-dates https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lFI3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA403&lpg=PA403&dq=%22your+public-spirited+advocates+of+good+government,+I+do+find+sneering+upon+the+self-government+of+the+Christian%22 Campbell-Bannerman.
Compare Gandhi: "Good government is no substitute for self-government." Young India (2 September 1920), p. 1
Attributed

Fumio Kishida photo

“We must absolutely defend free and fair elections, which are the basis of democracy. We will proceed with our election campaign as planned with the firm conviction that we will never yield to violence”

Fumio Kishida (1957) 100th~101st Prime Minister of Japan

assassination of Shinzo Abe
Fumio Kishida (2022) cited in " Japan votes in election billed as 'defense of democracy' as police admit security 'problems' during Shinzo Abe assassination https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/10/asia/japan-elections-voters-shinzo-abe-assassinated-intl-hnk/index.html" on CNN, 10 July 2022.

Jonathan Blow photo

“The way I think about puzzles is a real puzzle, is something you may not ever figure out.”

Jonathan Blow (1971) American video game designer and programmer

Q&A session https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK9nxanN9BM&t=2060s at Graz Technical University, November 2017

Marcelo Gleiser photo

“When most people think of nature, they want to look for perfection and for symmetry and balance, ... But if you really pay attention you are going to see that what actually makes nature tick are the imbalances, the imperfections, the asymmetries.”

Marcelo Gleiser (1959) Brazilian physicist

" Physicist Marcelo Gleiser Asks the Big Questions" https://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2011/08/physicist-marcelo-gleiser-asks-big-questions, dartmouth.edu (August 26, 2011)

Ernst Jünger photo

“Books and bullets have their own destinies”

Storm of Steel (1920)
Original: (la) Habent sua fata libelli et balli

Ernst Jünger photo
Ernst Jünger photo
Ernst Jünger photo
Ernst Jünger photo

“Tell me your relation to pain, and I will tell you who you are!”

Ernst Jünger (1895–1998) German writer

On Pain (1934)

Ernst Jünger photo
Ernst Jünger photo
Ernst Jünger photo
Ernst Jünger photo
Ernst Jünger photo
Ernst Jünger photo
Ernst Jünger photo
Ernst Jünger photo
Ernst Jünger photo