— Clive Staples Lewis Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898 - 1963
Mere Christianity (1952), Book I, Chapter 4, "What Lies behind the Law"
— Arun Jaitley Indian politician 1952
On the occasion of the Indian Parliament completing 60 years, as quoted in " Democracy is behind our growing global stature says PM http://www.abplive.in/india-news/democracy-is-behind-our-growing-global-stature-says-pm-153064", ABP Live (13 May 2012)
— Friedrich Dürrenmatt Swiss author and dramatist 1921 - 1990
— Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays
— Stanisław Lem Polish science fiction author 1921 - 2006
Solaris (1961), Context: We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is. We are seaching for an ideal image of our own world: we go in quest of a planet, of a civilisation superior to our own but developed on the basis of a prototype of our primeval past. At the same time, there is something inside us which we don't like to face up to, from which we try to protect ourselves, but which nevertheless remains, since we don't leave Earth in a state of primal innocence. We arrive here as we are in reality, and when the page is turned and that reality is revealed to us — that part of our reality which we would prefer to pass over in silence — then we don't like it any more.
Ch. 6: "The Little Apocrypha", p. 72
— Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd President of the United States 1882 - 1945
1940s, Third Inaugural Address (1941), Context: But it is not enough to achieve these purposes alone. It is not enough to clothe and feed the body of this Nation, and instruct and inform its mind. For there is also the spirit. And of the three, the greatest is the spirit. Without the body and the mind, as all men know, the Nation could not live. But if the spirit of America were killed, even though the Nation's body and mind, constricted in an alien world, lived on, the America we know would have perished.
— Aung San Suu Kyi State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy 1945
Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought Acceptance Speech (2013), Context: Why is one of the most important words in any language. You have to know why the world is the way it is or you have to want to know. If you do not have this curiosity and if you do not have the intelligence in order to be able to express this curiosity in terms that others can understand than we will not be able to contribute to progress in our world. How many of our people over these past few decades ever ask themselves why that had to submit to the authority of people who did not have the mandate of the general public. I do not think very many did. It was taken for granted that those who had power and authority could do exactly as they please. This was something that we could not accept.
— Joseph Goebbels Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister 1897 - 1945
1930s, On National-Socialism, Bolshevism & Democracy (September 10, 1938) http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/joseph-goebbels-on-national-socialism-bolshevism-and-democracy
— Bram Stoker Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula 1847 - 1912
Dracula (1897), Context: You reason well, and your wit is bold, but you are too prejudiced. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are, that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplated by men's eyes, because they know, or think they know, some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all, and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. But yet we see around us every day the growth of new beliefs, which think themselves new, and which are yet but the old, which pretend to be young, like the fine ladies at the opera.
Professor Van Helsing to Dr. Seward
— Osama bin Laden founder of al-Qaeda 1957 - 2011
1990s, Time magazine interview (1998), In response to the interviewer stating: 'Do you know the men who have been arrested for these attacks?'
— Jane Roberts American Writer 1929 - 1984
The Rebellers (1963), p. 129
— John Jay American politician and a founding father of the United States 1745 - 1829
1780s, The Federalist Papers, Federalist No. 2 (1787)
— Donovan Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist 1946
Context: We are one, we are all brothers and sisters, but the people of the world do not know this. So this was the teaching, but how do you teach it? As young people, John Lennon, George Harrison, myself, Carlos Santana and other spiritual seekers in pop music, we wanted to know the answer but we found a question: How do you convince the rest of the western world that they are ill, they are mentally ill, that they have a sickness and that they have lost the way? How do you teach that? You cannot teach that in the normal sense. You have to encourage a spiritual call, so we devoted ourselves to making songs which would have a spiritual call inside of them, hoping to awaken an awareness with this music. And other people in the arts felt the same...
— Lev Leviev Soviet-born Israeli businessman, philanthropist and investor 1956
Interview, Jewish Chronicle, 7 March 2008 http://thejc.com/home.aspx?AId58607&ATypeId1&searchtrue2&srchstrLev%20leviev&srchtxt1&srchhead1&srchauthor1&srchsandp1&scsrch0
— Robert McCammon American novelist 1952
Boy's Life (1991), It just happens.
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— C. Wright Mills American sociologist 1916 - 1962
Letters & Autobiographical Writings (1954), p. 187.
