Illiberal Democracies Quotes & Sayings

If you want to be the person you ought to be, you've got to welcome competition. — Bob Richards

In 1945 J.A. Ratcliffe ... suggested that I [join his group at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge] to start an investigation of the radio emission from the Sun, which had recently been discovered accidentally with radar equipment ... [B]oth Ratcliffe and Sir Lawrence Bragg, then Cavendish Professor, gave enormous support and encouragement to me. Bragg's own work on X-ray crystallography involved techniques very similar to those we were developing for "aperture synthesis", and he always showed a delighted interest in the way our work progressed. — Martin Ryle

My mother just died at 103, so that's a start. You should live 20 years longer than your parents. — Rupert Murdoch

Perhaps more to the point for TBTF (Too Big To Fail bank), if a SIFI (Systemically Important Financial Institution) does fail I have little doubt that private investors will in fact bear the losses-even if this leads to an outcome that is messier and more costly to society than we would ideally like. Dodd-Frank is very clear in saying that the Federal Reserve and other regulators cannot use their emergency authorities to bail out an individual failing institution — Jeremy C. Stein

Your Friendship with ms Sleeps with The fishes — John Green

I can't know everything, pretend you're an orphan. — Cheshire Cat

We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life. — Jessica Zafra

The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer. — Walter Mosley

Ignorant power is a bane! — Ursula K. Le Guin

Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman. — Benjamin Disraeli

I would not consider myself to be a quote unquote real New York rapper. I don't even like New York rappers. — ASAP Rocky

QED [quantum electrodynamics] reduces ... "all of chemistry and most of physics," to one basic interaction, the fundamental coupling of a photon to electric charge. The strength of this coupling remains, however, as a pure number, the so-called fine-structure constant, which is a parameter of QED that QED itself is powerless to predict. — Frank Wilczek