I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
BonoSoftware substitution, whether it’s for drivers or waiters or nurses – it’s progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set.
Bill GatesThe philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham LincolnOur society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
Lyndon B. JohnsonHumanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CummingsThe ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
Karl MarxOur scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.
Joyce MeyerWhen I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.
Noam ChomskyA particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
Carl JungJust in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Bill GatesMy music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
Bob MarleyWe don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
Golda MeirWe are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.
EpictetusIf the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.
Barack ObamaThe society based on production is only productive, not creative.
Albert CamusI have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.
Stephen HawkingMost men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
Charles DickensIf we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
Francis BaconI don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.
Dolly PartonSome people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Winston ChurchillThe production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
Karl MarxIt is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new ‚solution‘ to society’s ‚problems.‘
Thomas SowellI have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMen make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S. TrumanThe government is us; we are the government, you and I.
Theodore RooseveltDemocracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
AristotleWhere do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamMake measurable progress in reasonable time.
Jim RohnIt is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
William Makepeace ThackerayDid you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!
Joyce MeyerTimid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Thomas JeffersonWar is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.
George OrwellWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Carl SaganTo me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
Alice WalkerBehind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Friedrich NietzscheI have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
Benjamin DisraeliI believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
Franklin D. RooseveltDetermine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas JeffersonThe fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand RussellTo govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
Albert CamusYou have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.
Bill GatesSociety has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
George OrwellI would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
Samuel JohnsonAll who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Benjamin FranklinI know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
Thomas JeffersonThe welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
Albert CamusWe have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.
Jeff BezosThe year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.
Nikola TeslaIn December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can’t afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
Barack ObamaI don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
Vivienne WestwoodWe will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
Will RogersEverybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
James BaldwinWhen I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.
Brian EnoYou’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard ShawIt’s easier to add things on to a PC than it’s ever been before. It’s one click, and boom, it comes down.
Bill GatesAt the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Booker T. WashingtonConcentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
Noam ChomskyAnd while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew CarnegieThe world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
Thomas Carlyle