Rotg North Quotes & Sayings

The data show we can do something about upward mobility. Every extra year of childhood spent in a better neighborhood seems to matter. — Raj Chetty

I invest in people. I think: people first, projects second. — Bruno Zheng Wu

Libertarianism. A simple-minded right-wing ideology ideally suited to those unable or unwilling to see past their own sociopathic self-regard. — Iain Banks

The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made. — Robert Barany

There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are told they are unneeded by this economy. And that extreme poverty breeds conditions for extreme violence. — Martin O'Malley

Single and independent are words women use to make themselves feel better about being lonely and overwhelmed. — Lexi Ryan

When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the most important ethical dimensions of the diasporic Jewish tradition: namely, the obligation of co-habitation with those different from ourselves. — Judith Butler

I'm always in love. — Ziggy Marley

It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear. It is even perhaps the disappearance of reality that triggered this technical form. Reality found a way to mutate into an image. — Jean Baudrillard

Every endeavor, large or small, rises and falls on leadership. — Jeffrey Fry

Fear is the chain that wraps around a free man's leg. — Todd Stocker

But as someone pointed out earlier, it is not really about fairness; it is about taking finite resources and applying them where they will have the most effect. — Jim Walsh

What we call miracles is just what's supposed to happen. We either go with it or stand in its way. — Edward Kelsey Moore

All the major world religions (always excluding animism, of course), are founded on these notions: that man and man alone was the desired object of creation, that man occupies a preeminent place in the order of creation, that man has a value in God's eyes that is transcendently greater than that of all other creatures, that this world of matter is illusory, transitory, and worthless. — Daniel Quinn

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply. — Thom Gunn