Sukavich Rangsitpol (1935) Thai politician
citizenship in the changing world of tomorrow.
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Sukavich Rangsitpol (1935) Thai politician
citizenship in the changing world of tomorrow.
Vangelis (1943) Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock, and orchestral music
1984
Context: On albums and commercialism: "For every album I’ve ever made, I’ve written many times more music than has actually been released, and the way I choose which music appears is almost totally random, but one thing I have never done is to make music for the sake of commercialism... I don’t think it’s possible to guarantee commercial success for an album anyway, because nobody really knows what is commercial and what isn’t. Even if I went out of my way to make an album that was more accessible to the public, that would not guarantee its commercial success".
“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Source: Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
Akira Kurosawa book Something Like an Autobiography
Akira Kurosawa 'Something Like an Autobiography (1981)
Something Like an Autobiography (1981)
Bartolomé de las Casas (1474–1566) Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer
History of the Indies (1561)
Hannah Arendt book The Origins of Totalitarianism
Preface to the first edition, written in the summer of 1950.
The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
Context: The totalitarian attempt at global conquest and total domination has been the destructive way out of all impasses. Its victory may coincide with the destruction of humanity; wherever it has ruled, it has begun to destroy the essence of man. Yet to turn our backs on the destructive forces of the century is of little avail.
The trouble is that our period has so strangely intertwined the good with the bad that without the imperialists' "expansion for expansion's sake," the world might never have become one; without the bourgeoisie's political device of "power for power's sake," the extent of human strength might never have been discovered; without the fictitious world of totalitarian movements, in which with unparalleled clarity the essential uncertainties of our time have been spelled out, we might have been driven to our doom without ever becoming aware of what has been happening.
And if it is true that in the final stages of totalitarianism an absolute evil appears (absolute because it can no longer be deduced from humanly comprehensible motives), it is also true that without it we might never have known the truly radical nature of Evil.
Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927) Indian Sufi
Source: Thinking Like The Universe: The Sufi Path Of Awakening
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) French philosopher
Source: The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
“Total paranoia is just total awareness.”
Charles Manson (1934–2017) American criminal and musician
Rolling Stone interview (June 1970)
Context: Have you ever seen the coyote in the desert? Watching, tuned in, completely aware. Christ on the cross, the coyote in the desert — it’s the same thing, man. The coyote is beautiful. He moves through the desert delicately, aware of everything, looking around. He hears every sound, smells every smell, sees everything that moves. He’s in a state of total paranoia, and total paranoia is total awareness.
Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter
Launch.com, November 2, 2000<!-- site no longer exists -->
Bobby Fischer (1943–2008) American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer
Source: Radio Interview, May 24 1999 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_07_2.MP3
Salvador Allende (1908–1973) Chilean physician and politician
As quoted in Conversations With Allende (1970) by Regis Debray
“Unite your total strength, to be devoted to construction for the future.”
Hirohito Jewel Voice Broadcast
Gyokuon-hōsō (1945)
Context: Unite your total strength, to be devoted to construction for the future. Cultivate the ways of rectitude, foster nobility of spirit, and work with resolution — so that you may enhance the innate glory of the Imperial State and keep pace with the progress of the world.
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Variant: Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!
Source: The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
Abba Lerner (1903–1982) American economist
On Functional Finance: (1943, pg.354) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=174849
Tom Kenny (1962) American actor
Interview: Tom Kenny talks voicing SpongeBob Squarepants and 'Mr. Show' http://www.metro.us/entertainment/interview-tom-kenny-talks-voicing-spongebob-squarepants-and-mr-show/zsJoba---UspN3mmMXb2BE (February 2, 2015)
Pope Pius XII (1876–1958) 260th Pope of the Catholic Church
Statement (7 September 1956), as quoted in America, Vol. 100 (1958) by America Press, p. 121
“A little doubt is better than total credulity.”
Al-Maʿarri (973–1057) Medieval Arab philosopher
As quoted in Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out (2003) by Ibn Warraq, p. 68
Ludwig von Mises book Human Action
Source: Human Action (1949), Chapter XX: Interest, Credit Expansion, The Trade Cycle, § 8 : The Monetary or Circulation Theory of the Trade Cycle
The Mother (1878–1973) spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo
Her entry in her diary when she left Pondicherry and on the tumultuous developments in the world for the War, quoted in "Diary notes and Meeting with Sri Aurobindo" and also in IV. Diary Notes And Meeting With Sri Aurobindo http://www.motherandsriaurobindo.org/Content.aspx?ContentURL=/_staticcontent/sriaurobindoashram/-04%20Centers/India/Pondicherry/Sri%20Aurobindo%20Society/Wilfried/The%20Mother%20-%20A%20Short%20Biography/007_Diary%20Notes%20and%20Meeting%20with%20Sri%20Aurobindo.htm, p. 21
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920–1975) Bengali revolutionary, founder ("father") of Bangladesh
Quote, This time the struggle is for our freedom (1971)
Jeff Buckley (1966–1997) American singer, guitarist and songwriter
From Grace EPK (Electronic Press Kit)
Avril Lavigne (1984) Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
"Avril: Bad girl turned good", interview with Calgary Sun (June 2005)
Joachim Peiper (1915–1976) SS officer
Letter to Willis Everett, July 4, 1946. Parker, Hitler's Warrior, chapter 14, citing Everett Papers in note 5.
“This summer I have discovered something totally useless.”
Peter Higgs (1929) British physicist
Writing to a colleague about his proposal for a particle at the origin of mass (1964), as quoted in The Hunt for the Higgs Boson http://www.sciencescotland.org/feature.php?id=14, Science Scotland, issue no. 3.
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Address to the Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce (10 July 1991)
Post-presidency (1989–2004)
Context: Although I held public office for a total of sixteen years, I also thought of myself as a citizen-politician, not a career one. Every now and then when I was in government, I would remind my associates that "When we start thinking of government as 'us' instead of 'them,' we've been here too long." By that I mean that elected officeholders need to retain a certain skepticism about the perfectibility of government.
Federico Fellini (1920–1993) Italian filmmaker
"Artistic Freedom"
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
Context: I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
“What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers.”
Barbara Kruger (1945) American artist
An email to a supreme employee.
Nathuram Godse (1910–1949) Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi
Nathuram Godse: Why I Assassinated Gandhi (1993)
“You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.”
Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer
Source: Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
Kristin Cast book Awakened
Source: Awakened
“The aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love.”
Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
Source: Eleven Minutes
Source: Masterpiece
“You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.”
Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer
“Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.”
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
“The commander went, as they say in Ankh-Morpork, totally Librarian on them.”
Terry Pratchett book Raising Steam
Source: Raising Steam
“It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.”
Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange
Source: A Clockwork Orange
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
“Total absence of humor renders life impossible.”
Colette (1873–1954) 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi
Chance Acquaintances (1952)
Source: Chance Acquaintances and Julie de Carneilhan
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Source: On the Heights of Despair (1934)
Karl Marx book A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Preface to ' (1859).
Source: A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Context: In the social production of their life, men enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will; these relations of production correspond to a definite stage of development of their material forces of production. The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society — the real foundation, on which rises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life determines the social, political and intellectual life process in general. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness. [Es ist nicht das Bewußtsein der Menschen, das ihr Sein, sondern umgekehrt ihr gesellschaftliches Sein, das ihr Bewusstsein bestimmt. ] At a certain stage of their development, the material productive forces in society come in conflict with the existing relations of production, or — what is but a legal expression for the same thing — with the property relations within which they have been at work before. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into fetters. Then begins an epoch of social revolution. With the change of the economic foundation the entire immense superstructure is more or less rapidly transformed. In considering such transformations a distinction should always be made between the material transformation of the economic conditions of production, which can be determined with the precision of natural science, and the legal, political, religious, aesthetic or philosophic — in short, ideological forms in which men become conscious of this conflict and fight it out. Just as our opinion of an individual is not based on what he thinks of himself, so we can not judge of such a period of transformation by its own consciousness; on the contrary, this consciousness must be explained rather from the contradictions of material life, from the existing conflict between the social productive forces and the relations of production. No social order ever disappears before all the productive forces for which there is room in it have been developed; and new, higher relations of production never appear before the material conditions of their existence have matured in the womb of the old society itself. Therefore, mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation. In broad outlines we can designate the Asiatic, the ancient, the feudal, and the modern bourgeois modes of production as so many progressive epochs in the economic formation of society. The bourgeois relations of production are the last antagonistic form of the social process of production — antagonistic not in the sense of individual antagonism, but of one arising from the social conditions of life of the individuals; at the same time the productive forces developing in the womb of bourgeois society create the material conditions for the solution of that antagonism. This social formation constitutes, therefore, the closing chapter of the prehistoric stage of human society.
Patrick Süskind (1949) German writer and screenwriter
Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Russell L. Ackoff (1919–2009) Scientist
Cited in: Haluk Demirkan, James C. Spohrer, Vikas Krishna (2011) The Science of Service Systems. p. 274.
1970s, Towards a System of Systems Concepts, 1971
Jadunath Sarkar (1870–1958) Indian historian
Jadunath Sarkar, History of Aurangzib, Volume III, Calcutta, 1928. https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.62677/2015.62677.The-History-Of-Aurangzib-Voliii-Second-Edition_djvu.txt
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Source: 1910s, Proposed Roads To Freedom (1918), Ch. IV: Work and Pay, discussing Universal Basic Income (UBI)
Malala Yousafzai (1997) Pakistani children's education activist
Nobel Peace Prize Winner Speech (October 10, 2014)
Samir Amin (1931–2018) Egyptian economist
The Election of Donald Trump https://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2016/amin301116.html (30 November 2016), Monthly Review Magazine (MRzine)
C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
"Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype" (1939) In CW 9, Part I: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious P.172
Richard Boyatzis (1946) American business theorist
Introduction text.
Competent manager (1982)
Michael Moorcock (1939) English writer, editor, critic
Source: Short fiction, London Bone (1997), p. 423
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Source: Notebook I, The Chapter on Money, p. 76.