David Rockefeller Book Quotes & Sayings

Relationships give us a reason to live. Revenge. — Ronnie Shakes

Wherever there is abuse there is also corruption. Politics, philosophy, theology, science, industry, any field with the potential to affect the well-being of others can be destroyed by abuse and saved by good will. — Criss Jami

Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now. — Ben Carson

There's a fine mascara line between genius and insanity — Josh Stern

The animals themselves are incapable of demanding their own liberation, or of protesting against their condition with votes, demonstrations, or bombs. Human beings have the power to continue to oppress other species forever, or until we make this planet unsuitable for living beings. Will our tyranny continue, proving that we really are the selfish tyrants that the most cynical of poets and philosophers have always said we are? Or will we rise to the challenge and prove our capacity for genuine altruism by ending our ruthless exploitation of the species in our power, not because we are forced to do so by rebels or terrorists, but because we recognize that our position is morally indefensible? The way in which we answer this question depends on the way in which each one of us, individually, answers it. — Peter Singer

Scale will get you strategy. — Nicholas Negroponte

A second-class is a first-class mistake. — William Arthur Ward

Indeed, women like Peterman who admitted they joined the army for adventure as opposed to patriotism or love were often viewed with skepticism and derision by the press because their actions and motivations failed to conform to accepted romantic and cultural ideals. — DeAnne Blanton And Lauren M. Cook

And Thou shalt never, but never be a bystander. — Yehuda Bauer

If you're bored of the songs, you're bored of the songs. There's not much you can do. — Thom Yorke

Whoever you are and whatever start you get in life, knowing stuff makes the world more abundant with possibilities and gleams of light more likely to illuminate the darkness. It opens the universe a little. — Ian Leslie

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.' — A. P. Martinich

('The mistake,' Sylvie said, 'is thinking that love equates with happiness.') — Kate Atkinson

The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all - is when you exaggerate the truth, like Richard Pryor did, you understand? — Pauly Shore