Preface, p. xvi
World Brain (1938)
Kontext: We do not want dictators, we do not want oligarchic parties or class rule, we want a widespread world intelligence conscious of itself. To work out a way to that world brain organization is therefore our primary need in this age of imperative construction.
— Ayaz Mutallibov Soviet politician, then president of Azerbaijan 1938
Quelle: "Azerbaijani Leader, Restored To Power, Imposes Emergency Rule" in The Washington Post https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:epcCRJyvH3AJ:https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/05/15/azerbaijani-leader-restored-to-power-imposes-emergency-rule/c4a5d291-a743-4227-90db-54e0f9739b80/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us (15 May 1992)
— Hans Arp Alsatian, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist 1886 - 1966
Quelle: 1960s, Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs (1966), p. 183: Serge Fauchereau (1988) in Arp, p. 20 commented: 'Even though his work was nonrepresentational, Arp disapproved of the term 'abstract art' being applied to it, as he often explained with the above quote'.
Kontext: We do not wish to copy nature. We do not want to reproduce, we want to produce. We want to produce as a plant produces a fruit and does not itself reproduce. We want to produce directly and without meditation. As there is not the least trace of abstraction in this art, we will call it concrete art.
— Al Franken American comedian and politician 1951
Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (2003)
Kontext: If you listen to a lot of conservatives, they'll tell you that the difference between them and us is that conservatives love America and liberals hate America.... They don't get it. We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
That's why we liberals want America to do the right thing. We know America is the hope of the world, and we love it and want it to do well.
„Do we want also to be world champion in moaning?“
— Helmut Schmidt Chancellor of West Germany 1974-1982 1918 - 2015
in "Because Germany has to change" DIE ZEIT 22/2003 22. Mai 2003 http://www.zeit.de/2003/22/01n____leit_schmidt_text
— Phyllis Schlafly American activist 1924 - 2016
Cultural Conservatism and the Religious Right https://www.c-span.org/video/?c3858491/phyllis-schlafly, C-SPAN.org (April 4, 2012)
— Randall Jarrell poet, critic, novelist, essayist 1914 - 1965
“Malraux and the Statues at Bamberg”, p. 191
A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables (1962)
— Bill Nye American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, scientist and former mechanical engineer 1955
Quelle: [NewsBank, Sandy Fitzgerald, Marsha Blackburn Takes on 'Science Guy' on Climate Change, Newsmax.com, February 16, 2014]
„It isn't that we do what we want. It's that we're allowed to want at all.“
— Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty
Quelle: A Great and Terrible Beauty
„We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.“
— Errico Malatesta Italian anarchist 1853 - 1932
l'Agitazione (18 June 1897)
„We do not manufacture wants for goods we do not produce.“
— John Kenneth Galbraith, buch Gesellschaft im Überfluss
Quelle: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 9, Section VI, p. 113
„sometimes our future is
dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.“
— Nicholas Sparks, buch Wie ein einziger Tag
Quelle: The Notebook
„The world doesn’t give a damn what we feel or want. Only what we are, and what we do.“
— Steven Barnes American writer and author 1952
Quelle: Street Lethal (1983), Chapter 17 “Alpha-Alpha” (p. 250)
„We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do.“
— Woody Guthrie American singer-songwriter and folk musician 1912 - 1967
Message on mimeographed copies of lyrics distributed to fans in the 1930s, as quoted by Pete Seeger in an NPR interview "Pete Seeger remembers Woody" (1996)
Kontext: This song is Copyrighted in U. S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ours, cause we don't give a darn. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do.
— Dallas Willard American philosopher 1935 - 2013
Quelle: Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
„We do what we have to so we can do what we want to.“
— Denzel Washington actor, screenwriter, director, producer 1954
— Konrad Heiden German journalist and historian 1901 - 1966
Quelle: A History of National Socialism (1934), p. 100
— Brian Wilson American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer 1942
"A Pop Genius Speaks of Love, Mercy, and Melody " (6 November 2001)
— Karl Marx German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist 1818 - 1883
Section 2, paragraph 20, lines 9-13.
The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
„We did not want middle class.“
— Denis Healey British Labour Party politician and Life peer 1917 - 2015
Quelle: On Tony Benn; remark to the Shadow Cabinet (31 July 1972), quoted in Tony Benn, Office Without Power: Diaries 1968–72 (1988), p. 441
