Members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think that the influence of people with power and money to distort democracy and have their interests served before the rest… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
In 2003, at the time I made my "Old Europe" comment, the center of gravity in NATO and Europe had long since… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Many flagship state universities have wonderful digital libraries that are accessed by people around the world. In future, if not current, budget… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
If you ask yourself who is paying for pharmaceutical innovation today, the answer is that it's the more affluent populations paying for… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Wars are no longer waged in the name of a sovereign who must be defended; they are waged on behalf of the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Some of the developing-country governments and populations are tired of having things rammed down their throats, but we're not yet at the… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
What Taika [Watiti] still bring to it [Hunt for the Wilderpeople], it really sums up what life is like in New Zealand,… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
I think what's happening with the veterans is a gift from God to show us what happens when you take layers and… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I know that in South Africa, we were in that space, and we're still suffering from that space. And that was where… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain were really Communists. We were badly deceived, for, had… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
New York has become almost a third-world country. When I was growing up it was mostly a Euro-American country. And it wasn't… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Although it's the second largest country in the world, our useful area has been reduced. Our immigration policy is disgusting: We plunder… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
I find it fascinating that sport has such a strong connection to success in business. Arguably, C-suite women are some of the… — Beth Brooke Copy Share Image
I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises,… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Overall, The Population Bomb was probably too optimistic. I was writing about climate change - Anne and I actually wrote the book.… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Like our finances, humankind is living with a growing ecological deficit but the solution is different. The deficit will worsen with dangerous… — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
Soil is a resource, a living, breathing entity that, if treated properly, will maintain itself. It's our lifeline for survival. When it… — Marjorie Harris Copy Share Image
One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College]… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated...It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
Here are two facts that should not both be true: - There is sufficient food produced in the world every year to… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
The poor have often been subversive just because they don't always believe their own depiction as brutes and loafers and leeches, and… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity… — Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill Copy Share Image
But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“People need people and the happiest people are surrounded with friendly flesh. If you have ten kids they'll be so sweet --… — Mark Halliday Copy Share Image
As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
If the level and amount of consumption and waste of the western rich countries ever reaches the poor countries, it will mean… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't think I would use a gun, but who knows what a person would do in certain circumstances? My instincts are… — David Icke Copy Share Image
And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
I am anxious to see the doctrine of one god commenced in our state. But the population of my neighborhood is too… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria… — David Miliband Copy Share Image