It is staggering that in the 21st century, half of the world's population - that's three and a half billion people -… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
The people of Central America - and, in a broader sense, the entire developing world - need to know first-hand that freedom… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
An elite group of less than a billion people now take more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth. — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Well, maybe not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health-care resources more prudently – rationing, by its proper name –… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
It is the members of this business elite . . . that pose the greatest danger to our American way of life.… — Lou Dobbs Copy Share Image
As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
When I started out, Jiu-Jitsu was really an elite thing in Brazil, and there was some prejudice towards poorer kids, so I… — Anderson Silva Copy Share Image
If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
Another way of verbally masking elite preemption of other people's decisions is to use the word 'ask'-as in 'We are just asking… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Far too long, historians have accepted the claim that the conversion of the Emperor Constantine (ca. 285-337) caused the triumph of Christianity.… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
I believe in fierce love, pushing the edge, calling the robbers, the corporates, the elites, the pillagers and insanely wealthy to task,… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . .… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
It's easy to forget when you're an elite athlete that everyone else gets nervous as well. Even the best people in the… — Leisel Jones Copy Share Image
My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The situation in Georgia is determined by the breakaway regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia. While we must acknowledge the reforms initiated by… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
Most politicians are ever eager to regulate industrial and commercial activity and strike at the economic elite with confiscatory taxation. Unfortunately, regulation… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
“The processes of corporate power do not work in isolation. The economic and legal mechanisms that allow the privatization of the commonwealth,… — George Draffan Copy Share Image
I just think we all distrust people and institutions much more than we once did. And we tend to think elites run… — Christopher Michael Cillizza Copy Share Image
I spent the first years working in Jordan trying to learn as much as I could about what was taking place in… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members. — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
