Buttress Wall Quotes & Sayings

It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty. — Albert Einstein

His bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel. — Luigi Pulci

First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully. — John Yoo

As his mother said, once you started worrying about the future, you started obsessing about the past. — Cassandra Clare

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts. — Italo Calvino

Socialized medicine must fail for the same reasons all socialism must fail: it offers no system for rationally allocating resources, and instead promotes the overutilization of all resources, ending in bankruptcy. — Llewellyn Rockwell

I can see her struggling to find the right word. Death seems so harsh. Passing so oblique. Some things are beyond words, I suppose, and she never finishes the statement. It seems right, that her words should fall into oblivion; after all, she - like me, like everyone - has no words for what follows, for the unknowable, only her hopes and prayers and an unwavering faith in something more. — Kelseyleigh Reber

There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected not just via Facebook and Internet, you're actually quite literally connected by your neurons. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

It's not easy to give up something you've had all your life. — Francesca Marciano

If you just warn people, they often simply ignore you. But if you ask them a question, then they have to think about it. And once they start to think about the consequences, they almost always calm down.
Unless they're drunk, of course.
Or stoned.
Or aged between fourteen and twenty-one.
Or Glaswegian. — Ben Aaronovitch

Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse. — W. H. Auden

I talked to my partners (about) the decision I wanted to do and we all wished each other good luck. My partners have been very successful in the companies that we've created. They're very happy about it and have the mindset to run them and do well with them. — Drew Waters

I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Anybody with skin issues knows that that's a very sensitive subject, and that's why I've never shared that I have vitiligo because I do. — Tamar Braxton

If we use goods made from raw materials that are obtained from a poor country without the proceeds being used to benefit the people of that country, we become complicit in a particularly iniquitous form of grand larceny. — Peter Singer