Lomberg Maine Quotes & Sayings

My fundamental tenets are concerned with freedom of the individual; the market isn't perfect, but it's the best available way of allocating resources. — Niall Ferguson

To this day, we see all around us the Promethean drive to omnipotence through technology and to omniscience through science. The effecting of all things possible and the knowledge of all causes are the respective primary imperatives of technology and of science. But the motivating imperative of society continues to be the very different one of its physical and spiritual survival. It is now far less obvious than it was in Francis Bacon's world how to bring the three imperatives into harmony, and how to bring all three together to bear on problems where they superpose. — Gerald Holton

Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

If you can lead yourself when nobody is following, people will follow when you are not leading — Saji Ijiyemi

And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness. — John Steinbeck

It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists. — Mahatma Gandhi

In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I have a very set routine. I work six days a week, but only half days. I work from 9 in the morning till 1 in the afternoon, without any interruptions, a fair slug. — Peter Mayle

Mothers work outside the home for many reasons; one of them is almost always because their families need their income to live up to their standards for their children. — Kenneth Keniston

Nobody, nobody is good enough — Joseph Conrad

Societies have a peculiar way of relating, or more accurately non-relating, to rape maybe because it is so vicious, they choose to live in denial about it. — Aysha Taryam