Marcus Tullius Cicero

(106 BC - 43 BC)

Luisa Valenzuela

The Bible

Ibn Khalawayh

(c. 900 - c. 980)

Niccolò Machiavelli

(1469 - 1527)

Joseph Heller

(1923 - 1999)

Thomas Hobbes

(1588 - 1679)

E.M. Cioran

(1911 - 1995)

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

(1862 - 1931)

Nadine Gordimer

(1923 - 2014)

Edwidge Danticat

Emma Reyes

(1919 - 2003)

Theodore Roosevelt

(1858 - 1919)

Caroline Alexander

Richard Hofstadter

(1916 - 1970)

Michel Foucault

(1926 - 1984)

Pausanias

(c. 110 - c. 180)

Atiq Rahimi

Lewis H. Lapham

(1935 - 2024)

Margery Kempe

(c. 1373 - c. 1438)

Shannon Gibney

Susan Brownmiller

William Shakespeare

(1564 - 1616)

Steve Biko

(1946 - 1977)

Tadeusz Borowski

(1922 - 1951)

William Sloane

(1906 - 1974)

Andrés Bernáldez

(1450 - 1513)

Václav Havel

(1936 - 2011)

Marbod of Rennes

(c. 1035 - 1123)

Charles Darwin

(1809 - 1882)

Jerome D. Frank

(1909 - 2005)

Suki Kim

Sigmund Freud

(1856 - 1949)

Philippe Petit

Ihara Saikaku

(1642 - 1693)

Paul Collins

Hama Tuma

William Dean Howells

(1837 - 1920)

Charles Simic

Stefan Zweig

(1881 - 1942)

H.P. Lovecraft

(1890 - 1937)

Aeschylus

(c. 525 BC - 456 BC)

Jorge Amado

(1912 - 2001)

Siegfried Sassoon

(1886 - 1967)

Edgar Allan Poe

(1809 - 1849)

John G. Neihardt

(1881 - 1973)

Marilynne Robinson

Alexis de Tocqueville

(1805 - 1859)

E.T.A. Hoffmann

(1776 - 1822)

Patrick J. McGinnis

Dorothy Thompson

(1893 - 1961)

Paul Tillich

(1886 - 1965)

Stephen Crane

(1871 - 1900)

John Locke

(1632 - 1704)

He-Yin Zhen

(c. 1884 - c. 1920)

Atticus Lish

Saul Friedländer

Maximilien Robespierre

(1758 - 1794)

Judith N. Shklar

(1928 - 1992)

Aristotle

(384 BC - 322 BC)

Epictetus

(c. 55 - c. 135)

Arthur Koestler

(1905 - 1983)

Central Intelligence Agency

Robert Burton

(1577 - 1640)

Mario Vargas Llosa

J. Hoberman

Wole Soyinka

Woodrow Wilson

(1856 - 1924)

M.R. James

(1862 - 1936)

Andrew Grove

(1936 - 2016)

Suetonius

(69 - c. 130)

James Baldwin

(1924 - 1987)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

(1821 - 1881)

George Orwell

(1903 - 1950)

Walter Cannon

(1871 - 1945)

Ernst Bloch

(1885 - 1977)

Hans Erich Nossack

(1901 - 1977)

Subcomandante Marcos

Diego Durán

(c. 1537 - 1588)

Ivan Vladislavić

Edmund Burke

(1729 - 1797)

Benedict de Spinoza

(1632 - 1677)

Hannah Crafts

(c. 1830 - c. 1880)