— Eric Temple Bell mathematician and science fiction author born in Scotland who lived in the United States for most of his life 1883 - 1960
Quelle: Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science (1938), p. 16
„The contradictions are obvious, but whether they derive from the authors’ irrationality or from their fidelity to the real quality of lived experience is not so easy to say. If "Marxism-Stirnerism" is conceivable, every orthodoxy prating of freedom or liberation is called into question, anarchism included.“
Preface to The Right To Be Greedy (1983 edition)
Kontext: The individualists have only worshipped their whims. The point, however, is to live them. Is this a put-on, a piece of parlor preciosity? There is more than a touch of that here. Or a mushminded exercise in incongruous eclecticism? The individualist egoist is bound to be skeptical, but he should not be too quick to deprive himself of the insights (and the entertainment!) of this unique challenge to his certitudes. The contradictions are obvious, but whether they derive from the authors’ irrationality or from their fidelity to the real quality of lived experience is not so easy to say. If "Marxism-Stirnerism" is conceivable, every orthodoxy prating of freedom or liberation is called into question, anarchism included. The only reason to read this book, as its authors would be the first to agree, is for what you can get out of it.
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— Carl Sagan American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator 1934 - 1996
Quelle: Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium (1997), Chapter 14, "The Common Enemy".
— Alfred Jules Ayer English philosopher 1910 - 1989
"The Meaning of Life".
The Meaning of Life and Other Essays (1990)
— Joseph Addison politician, writer and playwright 1672 - 1719
Sir Alfred Jules Ayer, in his "The Meaning of Life", collected in The Meaning of Life, and Other Essays (1990).
Misattributed
— Aleksandr Zinovyev Russian writer 1922 - 2006
On the Social State of Marxism (1978)
— Leo Strauss Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservativism 1899 - 1973
“What is liberal education,” p. 8
Liberalism Ancient and Modern (1968)
— Rudolf Rocker, buch Anarcho-Syndicalism
Quelle: Anarcho-Syndicalism (1938), Ch. 1 "Anarchism: Its Aims and Purposes"
Kontext: Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force. And this unintelligence of its objectives sets its stamp on its supporters also and renders them stupid and brutal, even when they were originally endowed with the best of talents. One who is constantly striving to force everything into a mechanical order at last becomes a machine himself and loses all human feeling.
It was from the understanding of this that modern Anarchism was born and now draws its moral force. Only freedom can inspire men to great things and bring about social and political transformations. The art of ruling men has never been the art of educating men and inspiring them to a new shaping of their lives. Dreary compulsion has at its command only lifeless drill, which smothers any vital initiative at its birth and can bring forth only subjects, not free men. Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future of mankind. The liberation of man from economic exploitation and from intellectual and political oppression, which finds its finest expression in the world-philosophy of Anarchism, is the first prerequisite for the evolution of a higher social culture and a new humanity.
„It was the essential freedom from dogma and the scientific outlook of Marxism that appealed to me.“
— Jawaharlal Nehru Indian lawyer, statesman, and writer, first Prime Minister of India 1889 - 1964
Autobiography (1936; 1949; 1958)
Kontext: Russia apart, the theory and philosophy of Marxism lightened up many a dark corner of my mind. History came to have a new meaning for me. The Marxist interpretation threw a flood of light on it... It was the essential freedom from dogma and the scientific outlook of Marxism that appealed to me. p. 362-363
— Adolf Hitler Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party 1889 - 1945
Interview by Hanns Johst in Frankforter Volksblatt (January 27, 1934), quoted in David Schoenbaum, Hitler's Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany, 1933–1939 (New York: NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1997), p. 57
1930s
— Jack Vance, buch The Gray Prince
“The mourning of defeated peoples, while pathetic and tragic, is usually futile,” said Kelse.
Quelle: The Gray Prince (1975 [serialized 1974]), Chapter 16 (p. 159)
— Cormac McCarthy American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter 1933
Quelle: All The Pretty Horses: All The Pretty Horses
— Evo Morales Bolivian politician 1959
Press conference during his first visit to Cuba, December 2005.
Terra (Colombia) http://eltiempo.terra.com.co/inte/latin/noticias/ARTICULO-WEB-_NOTA_INTERIOR-2676419.html, as quoted by Spanish Wikiquote.
— Matthew Arnold English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools 1822 - 1888
"Irish Essays. A Speech at Eton" (1882)
„The Chief Magistrate derives all his authority from the people“
— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865
1860s, First Inaugural Address (1861)
Kontext: The Chief Magistrate derives all his authority from the people, and they have referred none upon him to fix terms for the separation of the States. The people themselves can do this if also they choose, but the Executive as such has nothing to do with it. His duty is to administer the present Government as it came to his hands and to transmit it unimpaired by him to his successor.
— Aleksandr Zinovyev Russian writer 1922 - 2006
On the Social State of Marxism (1978)
— Fidel Castro former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba 1926 - 2016
Speech (20 December 1961) http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/1961/esp/f201261e.html
— Clive Staples Lewis Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898 - 1963
Quelle: Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, p. 89
Kontext: But why,' (some ask), 'why, if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking about a phantasmagoric never-never land of your own?' Because, I take it, one of the main things the author wants to say is that the real life of men is of that mythical and heroic quality. One can see the principle at work in his characterization. Much that in a realistic work would be done by 'character delineation' is here done simply by making the character an elf, a dwarf, or a hobbit. The imagined beings have their insides on the outside; they are visible souls. And Man as a whole, Man pitted against the universe, have we seen him at all till we see that he is like a hero in a fairy tale?
„Opinions derived from long experience are exceedingly valuable“
— Peter Barlow (mathematician) British mathematician and physicist 1776 - 1862
Kontext: Opinions derived from long experience are exceedingly valuable, and outweigh all others, while they are consistent with facts and with each other; but they are worse than useless when they lead, as in this instance, to directly opposite opinions.
