Michael Kinsley (1951) American political journalist, commentator television host
Donald Trump is actually a fascist (December 9, 2016)
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“This administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations.”
Ralph Nader (1934) American consumer rights activist and corporate critic
Quoted in a news conference (3 October 1972), speaking on the Nixon Administration; reported in The Washington Post (4 October 1972), p. A2.
Mary Ruwart (1949) American scientist and libertarian activist
Source: Short Answers to the Tough Questions: How to Answer the Questions Libertarians Are Often Asked, (2012), p. 48
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian
Sermon VII : Outward and Inward Morality
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
“I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one.”
Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) French painter
Courbet, c 1860's, later quoted by Vincent van Gogh in a letter to brother Theo (July, 1885); in The letters of Vincent van Gogh, ed. Ronal de Leeuw - Penguin, New York, 1996, p. 302
1860s
“One should use common words to say uncommon things”
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
Essays, On Authorship and Style
Context: Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer’s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
"The Leaning Tower", lecture delivered to the Workers' Educational Association, Brighton (May 1940)
The Moment and Other Essays (1948)
“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Paul McCartney (1942) English singer-songwriter and composer
Source: Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
http://rocknrollworldmagazine.com/2015/08/82915-rock-history/
“At eighteen you don't think about memories,
you tell them.”
Nâzım Hikmet (1902–1963) Turkish poet
From Human Landscapes from My Country, Book Two, Section VII
“All know the way; few actually walk it.”
Bodhidharma (483–540) Chinese philosopher and Buddhist Monk
Rabia Basri Muslim saint and Sufi mystic
as quoted in Khushwant Singh, The Freethinker's Prayer Book (2013), p. 35
“A woman who says 'because I am working I will not be a mother' is actually denying her feminity.”
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (1954) 12th President of Turkey from 2014
As quoted in "Turkey's Erdogan says childless women are 'incomplete'" http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/06/turkey-erdogan-childless-women-incomplete-160606042442710.html, Al Jazeera (June 6, 2016)
“I don't want to be part of a world where being kind is a weakness.”
Keanu Reeves (1964) Canadian actor, director, producer and musician
“Each person must live their life as a model for others.”
Rosa Parks (1913–2005) African-American civil rights activist