Lever Quotes

46 quotes by 44 authors

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money. — Gro Harlem Brundtland
Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize to… — Noam Chomsky
Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of time some one… — Arthur Eddington
Throughout the history of the United States , war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central state. It has… — Bruce D. Porter
In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public spirited elements in… — Edward Alsworth Ross
But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little better for everybody,… — Mark Wahlberg
If you could choose to master a single ingredient, no choice would teach you more about cooking than the egg. It is an end in… — Michael Ruhlman
O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth! — Mikhail Lermontov
A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist.… — Isaac Babel
The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and… — Charles Caleb Colton
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence. — Simone Weil
Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes… — Hunter S. Thompson
What is the most powerful lever you can imagine? A big idea, but only if it's in the hands of a truly outstanding entrepreneur. It… — Bill Drayton
Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no… — Joseph Conrad
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in… — Ayn Rand
The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own… — B. H. Liddell Hart
It is probable that all heavy matter possesses - latent and bound up with the structure of the atom - a similar quantity of energy… — Frederick Soddy
The mightiest lever known to the world: imagination. — William Wordsworth
The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones,… — Christina Stead
It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make things. Rather, it… — Maria Cantwell

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