Nadine Gordimer Quotes
I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
Gordimer, Nadine. Conversations with Nadine Gordimer. Edited by Nancy Topping Bazin and Marilyn Dallman Seymour, University Press of Mississippi, 1990, p. 222.
This objectivity is one of the reasons that Spinoza has had such and influence on science and scientific method. He never attacked any person or religion but the power Spinoza’s ideas in undermining the intellectual authority of the power structure leaders were considered so radical and dangerous that he was the only man in history who was excommunicated by the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims.
Spinoza’s ideas were considered so radical and dangerous that he was the only man in history who was excommunicated by the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims.
Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was recognized as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".
