Bonifazi Quotes & Sayings

The widely accepted assertion that, only if you let markets be will everyone be paid correctly and thus fairly, according to his worth, is a myth. Only when we part with this myth and grasp the political nature of the market and the collective nature of individual productivity will we be able to build a more just society in which historical legacies and collective actions, and not just individual talents and efforts, are properly taken into account in deciding how to reward people. — Ha-Joon Chang

Steep curving stone stairs led to a square library on the floor above. The 4,000 books in the library were mostly collected between 1710 and 1730. ... For a moment I was tempted to ask to be locked in. If I could skim ten books a day for a year, I would be able to get a sense of most of what David Hume might have read in 1730 -- an age when it still might just have been possible to read everything. — Rory Stewart

What is the use of discussing a man's abstract right to food or medicine? The question is upon the method of procuring and administering them. In that deliberation I shall always advise to call in the aid of the farmer and the physician rather than the professor of metaphysics. — Edmund Burke

I felt everything more intensely, saw everything as if a filter had been removed. — Jojo Moyes

All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept. — Honore De Balzac

Don't be afraid to be outrageous; the critics will shoot you down anyway. — Laurence Olivier

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do. — Martha Grimes

There is nothing I dislike more in the world than people who care more about ideology than they do about people. — Jon Ronson

When you see somebody actually be able to channel that into an accessible, beautiful tool, you start to see the craftsman behind it. — David Gordon Green