Jeremy Corbyn (1949) British Labour Party politician
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1989/jan/18/elimination-of-poverty-in-retirement in the House of Commons (18 January 1989). <br class="br">1980s
Jeremy Corbyn (1949) British Labour Party politician
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1989/jan/18/elimination-of-poverty-in-retirement in the House of Commons (18 January 1989). <br class="br">1980s
Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
Ann Coulter (1961) author, political commentator
Remarks on Politically Incorrect (26 February 2001).
2001
Walter E. Williams (1936) American economist, commentator, and academic
2010s, Markets, Governments, and the Common Good
John Gibson (media host) (1946) American radio talk show host
http://mediamatters.org/items/200507080002
Richard Nixon (1913–1994) 37th President of the United States of America
In conversation with Henry Kissinger regarding Vietnam, as quoted in Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. (2002) by Daniel Ellsberg
2000s
Isaac Barrow (1630–1677) English Christian theologian, and mathematician
Preface
Geometrical Lectures (1735)
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Wilson Lewis, Prologue, p. 3
2000s, The Wedding (2003)
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Prophet
F. Anstey (1856–1934) English novelist and journalist
Source: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 7, “Gratitude—a Lively Sense of Favours to Come”
Philippe Kahn (1952) Entrepreneur, camera phone creator
On financial planning at a speech at the Smithsonian.
Jeffrey D. Sachs (1954) American economist
National Health Service <br class="br">Climate, Welfare..., Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 15 October, 2018 http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s4892252.htm
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) English writer and poet
Never Give Up! http://www.lib.utexas.edu/epoetry/tupperma.q3c/tupperma.q3c-89.html, l. 1-2. <br class="br">Ballads for the Times (1851)
Masha Gessen (1967) Russian-American journalist and activist
"Putin's Russia: Don't Walk, Don't Eat, and Don't Drink" http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/putins-russia-dont-walk-dont-eat-and-dont-drink?intcid=mod-yml (28 May 2015), The New Yorker.
Dan Piraro (1958) cartoonist
"Why I’m Vegan", in his official website Bizarro.com http://bizarro.com/why-im-vegan/
Mike Hawker (1956) American politician
Song I Only Want To Be With You
Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 43 (p. 437)
“Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light…”
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) Abolitionist, author
Part 2, Ch. 4.
Household Papers and Stories (1864)
Laisenia Qarase (1941) Prime Minister of Fiji
Address to the United Nations General Assembly, 17 September 2005 (excerpts)
François Fénelon (1651–1715) Catholic bishop
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 600.
Joe Barton (1949) United States congressional representative from Texas
[Save Medicaid from itself, The Washington Times, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2005/oct/30/20051030-100351-6365r/?page=all]
Albert Pike book Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871), Ch. XIX : Grand Pontiff, p. 317
Ignatius Sancho (1729–1780) British composer, writer and grocer
(from vol 2, letter 42: 9 Oct 1779, to Mr M___ ) [describing a friend]
Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012) Korean religious leader
This attitude is worse than criminal. This kind of faith is faulty in essence. Today the road of the Unification Church members is the road of setting this kind of Christianity straight. <br class="br"> Jesus Whom God Wanted To Find http://www.unification.net/1959/591018.html, 1959-10-18
“Does mud care which cloak it bespatters?”
Andre Norton (1912–2005) American writer of science fiction and fantasy
Source: Dragon Magic (1972), Chapter 5, “Shui Mien Lung—Slumbering Dragon” (p. 160)
Kurien Kunnumpuram (1931–2018) Indian theologian
Kunnumpuram, Kurien, 2011 “Theological Exploration,” Jnanadeepa: Pune Journal of Religious Studies 14/2 (July-Dec 2011)
On the Church
Báb (1819–1850) Iranian prophet; founder of the religion Bábism; venerated in the Bahá'í Faith
XVII, 2
The Kitáb-I-Asmá
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
1920s, The Democracy of Sports (1924)
Gerald Massey (1828–1907) British poet
Babe Cristabel, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Mel Gibson (1956) American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter
Gibson lending his support to Terri Schiavo, telling Terri's father that he supported his family's efforts to save his daughter's life. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/3/12/164305.shtml
“Take care of the poor people of my country.”
Abdul Sattar Edhi (1928–2016) Pakistani philanthropist, social activist, ascetic and humanitarian
Edhi’s dying words, as quoted (with translation from original words in Urdu language) by IlmFeed ( July 9, 2016 http://ilmfeed.com/abdul-sattar-edhi-a-hero-for-the-poor-and-destitute/) and in Gulf Times by Kamran Rehmat ( July 11, 2016 http://www.gulf-times.com/story/502146/The-beloved-distributor-of-hope/), retrieved July 22, 2016
John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer
Deut 32:15
Page 55.
Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551)
John James Audubon (1785–1851) American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter
On his life at Mill Grove, in Pennsylvania http://pa.audubon.org/centers_mill_grove.html in "Audubon's Story of His Youth" edited by Maria R. Audubon, in Scribner's Magazine Vol. XIII, No. 3, (March 1893), p. 278
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
"A Book in the Ruins" (1941)
Rescue (1945)
Milo Ventimiglia (1977) American actor
"Interview: Milo Ventimiglia Gets In the Ring For Rocky Balboa", MovieWeb (13 December 2006) https://movieweb.com/interview-milo-ventimiglia-gets-in-the-ring-for-rocky-balboa/.
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
“Fifty Years of American Poetry”, p. 299
The Third Book of Criticism (1969)
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
As quoted in "‘Never Let Up,’ Says Clemente" by Hal Hayes, in The Atlanta Constitution (Tuesday, May 5, 1970), p. 2-C
Baseball-related, <big><big>1970s</big></big>, <big>1970</big>
Kenneth Arrow (1921–2017) American economist
from Kenneth J. Arrow" http://www.pkarchive.org/cranks/Brian.html"Letter (1998) <br class="br">1970s-1980s
Margaret Chan (1947) Director-General of the World Health Organization
"Exclusive Interview with WHO's Dr. Margaret Chan" http://www.usaid.gov/news-information/frontlines/global-healthiraq/exclusive-interview-whos-dr-margaret-chan, April-May 2011.
Neil Simon (1927–2018) playwright, writer, academic
Mother, in Barefoot in the Park (1963); cited from The Collected Plays of Neil Simon (New York: New American Library, 1986) vol. 1, p. 207
Charles Evans Hughes (1862–1948) American judge
"Important Work of Uncle Sam's Lawyers", American Bar Association Journal (April 1931), p. 238, reprinting an address to the Federal Bar Association, Washington, D.C. (February 11, 1931), where the chief justice spoke of the "extraordinary development of administrative agencies of the government and of the lawyer's part in making them work satisfactorily and also in protecting the public against bureaucratic excesses", according to the article's subtitle
Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 44 (p. 445)
John Varley (1947) American science fiction author
Interview at Republibot.com http://www.republibot.com/content/interview-john-varley (February 24, 2009)
Donald Rumsfeld (1932) U.S. Secretary of Defense
DoD News Briefing April 09, 2003 http://www.defenselink.mil/Transcripts/Transcript.aspx?TranscriptID=2339 <br class="br">2000s
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903) British politician
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1867/aug/02/motion-for-an-address in the House of Commons (2 August 1867) on the Orissa famine of 1866 <br class="br">1860s
Crispin Sartwell (1958) American philosopher
White Liberals: We’re Not Racist (August 29, 2016)
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
"Love, Poverty and War" http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=C78DC231-4599-4745-9CA5-A398398916A0, FrontPageMagazine.com (2004-12-29). <br class="br">2000s, 2004
F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead (1872–1930) British politician
Introduction to H. Hills and M. Woods, Industrial Unrest: A Practical Solution (1914)
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647–1680) English poet, and peer of the realm
Letter to the diplomat Henry Savile (1673-1674).
Other
Mobutu Sésé Seko (1930–1997) President of Zaïre
November 25, 1977. D.J. Gould, "Patrons and Clients: The Role of the Military in Zaire Politics," in Isaac Mowoe, ed., The Performance of Soldiers as Governors, p. 485
John Dickinson (1732–1808) American politician
From Letters from a Farmer, in Pennsylvania, to the inhabitants of the British Colonies, Letter XII, Dickinson, Philadelphia
Jeremy Rifkin (1945) American economist
From a video for the Stop Vivisection campaign (10 July 2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vep0YbndO14, transcribed in “Jeremy Rifkin: Opinion Piece on Stop Vivisection,” in Equivita.it http://equivita.it/index.php/it/comunicati/2-non-categorizzato/568-jeremy-rifkin-opinion-piece-en
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
Source: L'Allegro (1631), Line 127; comparable to: "Wisdom married to immortal verse", William Wordsworth, The Excursion, book vii
Ja'far al-Sadiq (702–765) Muslim religious person
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.74, p. 187
General Quotes
Tim Keller (pastor) book The Reason for God
The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism (2008), Ch. 14: The Dance of God
Christine O'Donnell (1969) American Tea Party politician and former Republican Party candidate
at Family Research Council's Values Voters Summit, 2010-09-17
Mike
Lillis
O'Donnell revives Palin's 'death panel' claim on health reform
2010-09-18
The Hill
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/119545-odonnell-revives-palins-death-panel-claim
2010-10-30
Kenneth
Hayes
Christine O'Donnell: health care and death panels
2010-09-18
Chicago Examiner
http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-in-chicago/christine-o-donnell-health-care-and-death-panels
2010-10-30
2010 Delaware US Senate race
Isaac Bickerstaffe (1733–1812) Irish playwright and librettist
Love in a Village (1762), Act i, scene 2. Compare: "If naebody care for me, I'll care for naebody", Robert Burns, I hae a Wife o' my Ain; "I envy none, no, no, not I, And no one envies me", Charles Mackay, The King and the Miller.
Francisco de Sá de Miranda (1491) Portuguese poet
The sun is high — the birds oppress'd with heat, translated by John Adamson in Lusitania Illustrata, Vol. I, 1842
“Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world.”
Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things (1997)
Tom Higgenson (1979) American singer
"Plain White T's Frontman: ‘Seeing Is Believing'" https://www.peta2.com/news/plain-white-ts-frontman-knows-that-seeing-is-believing/ interview with PETA (18 July 2011).
Andre Dubus (1936–1999) Novelist, short story writer, teacher
Of Robin Hood and Womanhood.
Broken Vessels (1991)
Fiona Apple (1977) singer-songwriter, musician
On Shadowboxer from Tidal,
from Nuvo, "Fiona Apple: The NUVO Interview" April [1997]
John Pearson (author) (1930) author
Gone to Timbuctoo (1961), Ch. 9<!-- . London: Collins -->
Molly Ivins (1944–2007) American journalist
Notes from Another Country https://books.google.com/books?id=dlGDAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PT46&ots=4hYUXc8Ko7&dq=%22Notes%20from%20Another%20Country%22%20molly&pg=PT47#v=onepage&q=%22Notes%20from%20Another%20Country%22%20molly&f=false. Retrieved Dec 2, 2015.
Brendan Fraser (1968) Canadian American actor
I’m like, “I wanna know the same thing! <br class="br"> Brendan Fraser Interview – The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor http://collider.com/brendan-fraser-interview-the-mummy-tomb-of-the-dragon-emperor/ (July 31, 2008)
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2015, Presidential Bid Announcement (June 16, 2015)
“The writer who cares about usage must always know the quick from the dead.”
William Zinsser (1922–2015) writer, editor, journalist, literary critic, professor
Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 7, Usage, p. 45.
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
Real Time with Bill Maher, September 9, 2005
Interviews, Television Appearances
“Knowledge is ours; do not care about the unbeliever’s unbelief.”
Muhammad al-Mahdi (869–941) 12th and last Imam in Twelver Shia Islam
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.53, p. 151
Religious-based Quotes
Ron Paul (1935) American politician and physician
Press conference with Michael Scheuer at the National Press Club, May 24, 2007 http://thenewliberty.com/?p=184 <br class="br">2000s, 2006-2009
Wesley Snipes (1962) film actor, Martial artist, film producer
Wesley Snipes, Interview - Wesley Snipes on Blade 2 http://www.iofilm.co.uk/feats/interviews/w/wesley_snipes.shtml, iofilm,
Larry the Cable Guy (1963) American stand-up comedian, actor, country music artist, voice artist
Source: Git-R-Done (book), p. 5