Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into… — Elinor Ostrom Copy Share Image
Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
Most high governmental officials who speak of education policy seem to conceive of education in this light - as a way to… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
The thing about collaborators is that you don't know you are one whereas as a member of the resistance, you do. [In… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I learned this one growing up in Texas and, subsequently, living in Los Angeles: always use the 'usted' form when speaking to… — Iliza Shlesinger Copy Share Image
Before the 11th of September, in my discussions with many officials of the United States, some of them are Congressmen, I used… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
The other view is of the official United States, the United States of armies and interventions. The United States that in 1953… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
All businesses, including gasoline stations and restaurants, should close ever Sunday... by force of legislative fiat through the duly elected officials of… — Harold Lindsell Copy Share Image
“I hate to say it, but all that stuff they try to tell you about women being empowered and how it's fine… — Robin Epstein Copy Share Image
Cabinet members are soon overwhelmed by the insistent demands of running their departments. On the whole, a period in high office consumers… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Complementary currencies work in addition to existing money, rather than replacing existing, official money. There are whole different families of complementary currencies.… — Bernard Lietaer Copy Share Image
The . . . increase in the power of officials is a constant source of irritation to everybody else. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Nothing short of a federal investigation can begin to disclose the abuses which have woven a fine web of mutually implicating relationships… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
If you ever get a high official position in your country, you must see the interests of the humanity much more important… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
People do not like being lied to, and they do not like having their rights violated. So as soon as [officials] stop… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The question of Israeli apartheid was anathema a decade ago. Now it's even talked about by top Israeli officials, who say -… — Phyllis Bennis Copy Share Image
When we hear (as we sometimes do) that (Russia's) economic output is about half the level of a decade ago or that… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from Washington. — Margaret Ayer Barnes Copy Share Image
California officials want to contain a measles outbreak that originated in Disneyland last month. They are in luck because everyone who is… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
The question, then, for Western companies, as much as for Western governments, is to decide whose side they are on: the Chinese… — Ian Buruma Copy Share Image
Dean Burk, PhD, of the National Cancer Institute (head of their Cytochemistry Section and 32-year veteran at the agency) declared in a… — Barry Lynes Copy Share Image
