Václav Havel

(1936 - 2011)

Philippe Petit

Niccolò Machiavelli

(1469 - 1527)

Susan Brownmiller

Steve Biko

(1946 - 1977)

Hama Tuma

Siegfried Sassoon

(1886 - 1967)

Ihara Saikaku

(1642 - 1693)

George Orwell

(1903 - 1950)

Emma Reyes

(1919 - 2003)

Dorothy Thompson

(1893 - 1961)

William Shakespeare

(1564 - 1616)

Ernst Bloch

(1885 - 1977)

Atiq Rahimi

Joseph Heller

(1923 - 1999)

Central Intelligence Agency

Suki Kim

Stephen Crane

(1871 - 1900)

Lewis H. Lapham

(1935 - 2024)

Judith N. Shklar

(1928 - 1992)

William Sloane

(1906 - 1974)

Jorge Amado

(1912 - 2001)

Marilynne Robinson

Caroline Alexander

Epictetus

(c. 55 - c. 135)

Edmund Burke

(1729 - 1797)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

(106 BC - 43 BC)

Luisa Valenzuela

E.M. Cioran

(1911 - 1995)

Tadeusz Borowski

(1922 - 1951)

Mario Vargas Llosa

Ivan Vladislavić

Richard Hofstadter

(1916 - 1970)

Benedict de Spinoza

(1632 - 1677)

Suetonius

(69 - c. 130)

Patrick J. McGinnis

E.T.A. Hoffmann

(1776 - 1822)

Jerome D. Frank

(1909 - 2005)

Walter Cannon

(1871 - 1945)

Wole Soyinka

Arthur Koestler

(1905 - 1983)

Edgar Allan Poe

(1809 - 1849)

John Locke

(1632 - 1704)

Subcomandante Marcos

The Bible

Andrew Grove

(1936 - 2016)

Shannon Gibney

Diego Durán

(c. 1537 - 1588)

Aristotle

(384 BC - 322 BC)

Aeschylus

(c. 525 BC - 456 BC)

Ibn Khalawayh

(c. 900 - c. 980)

Michel Foucault

(1926 - 1984)

Marbod of Rennes

(c. 1035 - 1123)

Edwidge Danticat

H.P. Lovecraft

(1890 - 1937)

Charles Simic

Saul Friedländer

Sigmund Freud

(1856 - 1949)

Hans Erich Nossack

(1901 - 1977)

Stefan Zweig

(1881 - 1942)

James Baldwin

(1924 - 1987)

Robert Burton

(1577 - 1640)

Alexis de Tocqueville

(1805 - 1859)

He-Yin Zhen

(c. 1884 - c. 1920)

Atticus Lish

Paul Tillich

(1886 - 1965)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

(1821 - 1881)

Nadine Gordimer

(1923 - 2014)

M.R. James

(1862 - 1936)

Charles Darwin

(1809 - 1882)

Hannah Crafts

(c. 1830 - c. 1880)

Maximilien Robespierre

(1758 - 1794)

Andrés Bernáldez

(1450 - 1513)

William Dean Howells

(1837 - 1920)

J. Hoberman

Pausanias

(c. 110 - c. 180)

Thomas Hobbes

(1588 - 1679)

Paul Collins

Margery Kempe

(c. 1373 - c. 1438)

John G. Neihardt

(1881 - 1973)

Theodore Roosevelt

(1858 - 1919)

Woodrow Wilson

(1856 - 1924)

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

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