Rinspeed Quotes & Sayings

To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense of shame is to draw close to courage. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own character, he knows how to govern other men. Knowing how to govern other men, he knows how to govern the world, its states, and its families. — Confucius

I'm a passionate trade unionist. — Richard Attenborough

The Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out. — Cory Doctorow

Where did my friend go? Was there a place they all gathered, the lost and self destructive? Was there a room they put them in? Necks burnt with rope or holes in their skulls. Beach-water bloated. I will know this at the end of my conversation with life. I will speak and laugh until my tongue falls out and then I will know this. I will know because he will tell me when I see him. How will I enter the theatre? With a hole in my head or exploded by sea. Wrists. — Brendan Cowell

Be careful. You're making hurting a habit. Spreading it around won't lessen your pain, you know. Just the opposite. — Louise Penny

If you weren't there, and I weren't here ... If I weren't me ... but you were still you, I would be interested in letting you like-like me. — Courtney C. Stevens

If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man. — Peter Singer

Immigrants to America help us with the work they do. They challenge us with new ideas, and they give us perspective. This is still the nation that more people around the world want to come to than any place else. That has to tell us something about ourselves. If around the world this is the place people want to come to so much, maybe there's more here than many of us realize-and that many of us can take advantage of. — Rudy Giuliani