Jodie Marsh (1978) English glamour model and television personality
Interview in The Guardian, 25 January 2006 http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/jan/25/broadcasting.bigbrother
Jodie Marsh (1978) English glamour model and television personality
Interview in The Guardian, 25 January 2006 http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/jan/25/broadcasting.bigbrother
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848–1928) English mathematician and astronomer
Source: "Presidential Address British Association for the Advancement of Science," 1890, p. 467 : On the theory of numbers
Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
Sam Harris at Sydney Opera House Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2012, Discussion on Free Will http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM3raA1EwrI. <br class="br">2010s
Fritz Sauckel (1894–1946) German general
Quoted in "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal" - Nuremberg, Germany - 1948.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Part II, p. 76
Written in Passy (1784), Ch. VI
The Autobiography (1818)
Peter Hitchens (1951) author, journalist
2016-06-19
PETER HITCHENS: There's a faint chance we may get our nation back one day
Mail on Sunday
http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2016/06/peter-hitchens-theres-a-faint-chance-we-may-get-our-nation-back-one-day.html
On the pro-EU political class
Pauline Kael (1919–2001) American film critic
"The Perils of Being Pauline," interview with Francis Davis, The New Yorker (October 2001).
Interviews
C. N. R. Rao (1934) Indian chemist
[R. A. Mashelkar, Solid State Chemistry: Selected Papers of C N R Rao, http://books.google.com/books?id=8ZSfo_HUk7oC&pg=PA4, 28 February 1995, World Scientific, 978-981-279-589-2, 4]
Femi Taylor British writer
Q&A with Femi Taylor http://www.lucasfan.com/interviews/femitaylor.html (January 2, 1999)
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
Letter http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/the-nations-problem/
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
Source: 2010s, 2010, Decision Points (November 2010), p. 474
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) American artist
About climbing the Palo Duro Canyon, 1916
1970s, Some Memories of Drawings (1976)
Macy Gray (1967) American singer-songwriter and actress
Still" (co-written with Jeremy Ruzumna, Bill Esses, Jeff Blue) - YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CntzOovlkmo <br class="br">On How Life Is (1999)
Alice Cooper (1948) American rock singer, songwriter and musician
Interview with Nick Harper in The Guardian (28 November 2003).
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Les défauts de l'âme sont comme les blessures du corps: quelque soin qu'on prenne de les guérir, la cicatrice paraît toujours, et elles sont à tout moment en danger de se rouvrir.
Variant translation: The defects of the mind are like the wounds of the body. Whatever care we take to heal them the scars ever remain, and there is always danger of their reopening.
Maxim 194.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Isabel Paterson (1886–1961) author and editor
Source: The God of the Machine (1943), p. 250, emphasis in the original
Chief Seattle (1786–1866) Duwamish chief
Statement on surrendering tribal lands to Isaac Stevens, governor of Washington Territory (1855)
Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher (1757–1830) Danish scientist
In a letter to Gauss. As quoted in Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science (2004) by Guy Waldo Dunnington. p. 361-362
Quoted
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) German painter, sculptor, engraver and printmaker
Quote from his Diary, 1923; as quoted by Kornfield, E. W.; Stauffer, Christine E. Stauffer (1992). Biography Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Kirchner Museum Davos. Retrieved March 21, 2016; from Wikipedia: Kirchner
1920's
Frederick William Robertson (1816–1853) British writer and theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 205.
Garth Nix (1963) Australian fantasy writer
Source: The Keys to the Kingdom series, Lord Sunday (2010), p. 143.
John Mearsheimer book The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), Chapter 10, Great Power Politics in the Twenty First Century, p. 361
George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (1968)
Lyrics
Uthradom Thirunal Marthanda Varma (1922–2013) Maharaja of Travancore
On retaining his identity inspite of Britih control, in “The riches belong to nobody, certainly not to our family.”
The riches belong to nobody, certainly not to our family, 2009
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Speech to the National Press Club (19 September 1975) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102770 <br class="br">Leader of the Opposition <br class="br">Context: In every generation there comes a moment to choose, and for too long we've chosen the soft option. And it's brought us pretty low. There are some signs now that our people are prepared to make the tough choice and to follow the harder road. We're still the same people that have fought for freedom, and won, and the spirit of adventure, the inventiveness, the determination are still strands in our character. We may suffer from a British sickness now, but we have a British constitution and it's still sound, and we have British hearts and a British will to win through. I believe in Britain. I believe in the British people. I believe in our future.
Sri Aurobindo book Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
Savitri (1918-1950), Book One : The Book Of Beginnings
“We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
William Roscoe Estep (1920–2000) American theologian
The Anabaptist Story (1996), p. 142
Henry Moore (1898–1986) English artist
Quote from Moore's letter, (15 Jan. 1955); as cited in Henry Moore on Sculpture: a Collection of the Sculptor's Writings and Spoken Words, ed. Philip James, MacDonald, London 1966, p. 250
1940 - 1955
Liu Xiaobo (1955–2017) Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist
"Bellicose and Thuggish: The Roots of Chinese "Patriotism" at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century"
No Enemies, No Hate: Selected Essays and Poems
In a Reddit IAmA. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/r62jp/iama_nasa_astronaut_that_recently_returned_to/c437ubd (2012) <br class="br">An earlier similar quotation can be found in: <br class="br">The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right! <br class="br">By Larry Niven As quoted by Arthur C. Clarke in "Meeting of the Minds : Buzz Aldrin Visits Arthur C. Clarke" by Andrew Chaikin (27 February 2001) http://web.archive.org/web/20010302082528/http://www.space.com/peopleinterviews/aldrin_clarke_010227.html
Charles Taze Russell (1852–1916) Founder of the Bible Student Movement
Source: Milennial Dawn, Vol. III: Thy Kingdom Come (1891), p. 117.
Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) French painter
Quote of Pissarro, in a letter, Paris, 5 December 1886, to his son Lucien; in Camille Pissarro - Letters to His Son Lucien ed. John Rewald, with assistance of Lucien Pissarro; from the unpublished French letters; transl. Lionel Abel; Pantheon Books Inc. New York, second edition, 1943, p. 86
1880's
George Soros (1930) Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
Interview with David Brancaccio (2003)
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 3, subsection 11, Concupiscible Appetite, as Desires, Ambition, Causes.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910) British minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 78.
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1963, Third State of the Union Address
John Minford (1946) New Zealand sinologist
"China's Story of the Stone: the best book you've never heard of" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9434104/Chinas-Story-of-the-Stone-the-best-book-youve-never-heard-of.html, The Telegraph (28 July 2012)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, (1963)
Jo Grimond (1913–1993) British soldier, politician and academic
In The Spectator (21 January, 1978).
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
Vol. XIV, p. 301
Posthumous publications, The Collected Works
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
Source: The house on the hill (1949), Chapter 16, p. 144
“For simple light is perhaps still more beautiful than colors.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
Erika Jayne (1969) American singer, actress and television personality
Interview to Cosmopolitan (2016)
“Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function.”
Julian Jaynes book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Book III, Chapter 1, p. 337
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)
Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903–1946) Austrian-born senior official of Nazi Germany executed for war crimes
8/31/46. Quoted in "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal" - Page 381 - Nuremberg, Germany - 1947
Jonah Goldberg (1969) American political writer and pundit
April 2002 http://web.archive.org/web/20001011/www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/2002_04_14_corner-archive.asp <br class="br">2000s, 2002
Hans van Vliet (1949) Dutch computer scientist
Source: Software Engineering: Principles and Practice, 2007, p. 279
Michael Moorcock book The War Hound and the World's Pain
Source: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 18 (p. 166)
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
Article on Encyclopedia
L'Encyclopédie (1751-1766)
Vyasa central and revered figure in most Hindu traditions
Swami Tejomayananada, in p. 139.
Sources, Hindu Culture, An Introduction
Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books
On the film adaptation of V for Vendetta
Alan Moore on Anarchism (2009)
Imre Lakatos (1921–1974) Hungarian mathematician, philosopher
Source: Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, 1970, p. 92 as cited in: Anthony C. Thiselton (2007) The Hermeneutics of Doctrine. p. 166.
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
I pray you therefore to accept my thanks for the many instances you have enabled me to observe of respectable intelligence in that race of men, which cannot fail to have effect in hastening the day of their relief; [...]. <br class="br"> Letter to Henri Grégoire http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mtj:@field(DOCID+@lit(tj110052)) (25 February 1809), as quoted in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes. Federal Edition. Collected and Edited by Paul Leicester Ford. Also quoted in The Science and Politics of Racial Research by William H. Tucker (1994), p. 11 <br class="br">1800s, Second Presidential Administration (1805-1809)
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
"The action of carbonate of ammonia on chlorophyll-bodies" Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) (read 6 March 1882) volume 19, pages 262-284, at page 262 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=1&itemID=F1801&viewtype=text <br class="br">Detractors sometimes claim Darwin thought that the cell was an undifferentiated mass of protoplasm. Anyone reading this paper will realize that Darwin thought no such thing. <br class="br">Other letters, notebooks, journal articles, recollected statements
John Gray book Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
The Unsaved: The Grand Inquisitor and Flying Fish (p. 123)
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)
Robert Cormier book Beyond the Chocolate War
Source: Beyond the Chocolate War (1985), p. 273
Gerhard Richter (1932) German visual artist, born 1932
In 1988, Richter painted a series of 15 works titled 'October 18, 1977.' It shocked Germany, especially left. The series was based on photographs of the anti-capitalist Baader-Meinhof group, which called itself the Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Fraction) and were in prison and died in 1977.
after 2000, Gerhard Richter: An Artist Beyond Isms' (2002)
Linda McQuaig (1951) journalist and author
All You Can Eat: Greed, Lust and the New Capitalism (2001)
Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877–1959) British economist
Source: The Economics of Welfare (1920), Ch. 1 : Welfare and Economic Welfare, § 4
Gordon R. Dickson (1923–2001) Canadian-American science fiction writer
The Mortal and the Monster, in Stellar Short Novels edited by Judy-Lynn del Rey, p. 23
Short fiction
Richard Stallman (1953) American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
"Pedophilia" (4 January 2013) http://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#04_January_2013_%28Pedophilia%29 <br class="br">2010s
Thorstein Veblen book The Theory of the Leisure Class
Source: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), p. 83
Robert Hughes (1938–2012) Australian critic, historian, writer
Things I Didn't Know (2006)
“It is very astonishing that man, being a mortal, can still develop feelings of haughtiness.”
Harun Yahya (1956) Turkish author
23 April 2013.
A9 TV addresses, 2013
Kenneth Marende (1956) Kenyan politician
At a parliamentary proceeding in 2006. <br class="br"> Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard) 30 May 2006 http://books.google.co.ke/books?id=QFo7l7JfnXwC&pg=PT13&lpg=PT13&dq=Kenyans+can+still+have+sex+with+their+partners+even+when+they+are+asleep+so+long+as+they+are+married&source=bl&ots=H2kaZr_H_c&sig=03parKUXdkYQBOKYqnUmE2VaeIk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=aN4XUOD8NpOYhQfQ1YHQBw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Kenyans%20can%20still%20have%20sex%20with%20their%20partners%20even%20when%20they%20are%20asleep%20so%20long%20as%20they%20are%20married&f=false
Elizabeth Bath (1776–1844) English poet
"An Effusion", from Poems, on Various Occasions (1806)
Aron Ra (1962) Aron Ra is an atheist activist and the host of the Ra-Men Podcast
Patheos, How is secular humanist governance better than theocracy? http://www.patheos.com/blogs/reasonadvocates/2013/09/07/how-is-secular-humanist-governance-better-than-theocracy/ (September 7, 2013)
Coretta Scott King (1927–2006) American author, activist, and civil rights leader. Wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Reuters (31 March 1998)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947) actor, businessman and politician of Austrian-American heritage
written Twitter statement reported 8 October 2016 article by Variety https://variety.com/2016/biz/news/arnold-schwarzenegger-i-will-not-vote-for-the-republican-candidate-for-president-1201882915/, released a day after the release of the Access Hollywood tape from 2005 of an interview of Trump by Billy Bush <br class="br">2010s
Enoch Powell (1912–1998) British politician
The Daily Telegraph (9 June 1975), from Enoch Powell on 1992 (Anaya, 1989), p. 144
1970s
“Just have a listen to my songs. If you still want to beat me up, you can.”
Zeki Müren (1931–1996) Turkish musician
Source: Turkey's 'David Bowie': Crowds flock to remember Zeki Muren, Selin Girit, 29 January 2015 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30942013,
Aung San Suu Kyi (1945) State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy
Opening Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women, Beijing China (1995)
Louie Gohmert (1953) American politician
Speech to the United States House of Representatives (July 2015)
Joseph E. Stiglitz book Whither Socialism?
Source: Whither Socialism? (1994), Ch. 1 : The Theory of Socialism and the Power of Economic Ideas
Michael Greger (1972) American physician, author, and vegan health activist
Interview in the documentary-film What the Health by Kip Andersen (2017).