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Whistleblowing on Crises and Disasters
Author(s) -
Vinten Gerald
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of contingencies and crisis management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.007
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1468-5973
pISSN - 0966-0879
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5973.1993.tb00012.x
Subject(s) - obedience , law , criminology , history , stars , political science , sociology , law and economics , environmental ethics , philosophy , astronomy , physics
This is the excellent foppery of the world … we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars, as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence – Edmund, bastard son of Gloucester (Shakespeare, King Lear, 1 ii. 132 quoted in Wells and Taylor, 1987: 1239).