Confered Quotes & Sayings

If individuals do not occupy their legitimate position, then it will be occupied by a god or a king or a coalition of interest groups. If citizens do not exercise the powers confered by their legitimacy, others will do so.
(I - The Great Leap Backwards) — John Ralston Saul

Be conscious of your actions daily — Sunday Adelaja

A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble. — Winston Churchill

Because my name is Hungarian, everyone assumed I knew about Hungary. I didn't. They also assumed that if you knew about Hungary, you also knew about the rest of Eastern Europe. — Tibor Fischer

There are, of course, many reasons to think that brains operate mostly in parallel. Individual neurons are too slow to allow brains to operate in strict serial von Neumann fashion, and ample data suggest that in any given laboratory task (and by extension, any real-world situation) many different parts of the brain are engaged simultaneously. — Gary F. Marcus

If you keep kosher, the protagonist of your meal is not you; it is God. — Lauren F. Winner

I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything authoritarian. — Sander Levin

Since 2015, the media and the public have paid more attention than ever before to the use of deadly force by American police officers. That's a great thing. The more questions the public asks, the more the public demands police produce believable, transparent evidence that they are treating people fairly, the better off our nation will become. You will see how true this is throughout this book, but until 2015, not many Americans had noticed that the data gathering done by the government on this subject was, to put it mildly, really bad. — Nick Selby