Third Quotes
1961 quotes by 1550 authors
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According to Time magazine, global warming is 33% worse than we thought. You know what that means? Al Gore is one-third more annoying than we…
— Jay Leno
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The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.
— George Carlin
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The Federal Reserve the privately owned U.S. central bank definitely caused The Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation by one third…
— Milton Friedman
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It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of historical capitalism, institutional…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil prices, the debt imbroglio, and…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun…
— Alex Kozinski
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Something is not yet right and ripe in our human society at the beginning of the 21st century and third millennium: missing is an unprecedented…
— Robert Muller
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Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second…
— John Quincy Adams
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The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.
— William Blackstone
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American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of those killed were…
— Colin Ward
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Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways.…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.
— Harry S. Truman
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There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their…
— Benjamin Franklin
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To fly! to live as airmen live! Like them to ride the skyways from horizon to horizon, across rivers and forests! To free oneself from…
— Henri Mignet
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The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed class that pays…
— Michael Parenti
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Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World peoples, control their…
— Michael Parenti
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Just as the power of the feudal aristocracy had to be broken in order for capitalism to emerge fully, so must imperialism and capitalism in…
— Michael Parenti
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Turning every business into an environmental industry will involve applying new principles...first, we need to make more with less...second, we need to design out waste...third,…
— David Miliband
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But above all, what this Congress can be remembered for is opening the way to a new American revolutiona peaceful revolution in which power was…
— Richard M. Nixon
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