Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.
Address at Columbia University (1991)
Kontext: Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say. In the West, some "friends" turned against me, calling me by yet another set of insulting names. Now I was spineless, pathetic, debased; I had betrayed myself, my Cause; above all, I had betrayed them.
I also found myself up against the granite, heartless certainties of Actually Existing Islam, by which I mean the political and priestly power structure that presently dominates and stifles Muslim societies. Actually Existing Islam has failed to create a free society anywhere on Earth, and it wasn't about to let me, of all people, argue in favor of one.
„Verschwenden Sie Ihre Zeit nicht mit Erklärungen: die Leute hören nur, was sie hören wollen.“
Kontext-Interview vom 10.2022 Karriereabbruch im Leistungssport und die Folgen https://inclousiv.ch/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/kontext_7_beatrice_scalvedi.pdf
„Wenn Leute reden, hör völlig zu. Die meisten Leute hören nie zu.“
aus dem Nachwort zu "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story", 1945
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear” - books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=nkalO3OsoeMC&pg=PA226&dq=liberty
Farm der Tiere - Animal Farm
„Es gibt Leute, die glauben, alles wäre vernünftig, was man mit einem ernsthaften Gesicht tut.“
Sudelbücher Heft E (286)
Sudelbücher
„Höre vielen zu, spreche zu wenigen.“
1914 in einem Interview, zitiert in: Marc Simpson, "The 1900s", S. 318, in Darrel Sewell, "Thomas Eakins", Yale University Press : Philadelphia 2001, ISBN 0-87633-143-6, Übersetzung: .o
Original engl.: "They are all nonsense, and no serious student should occupy his time with them."
