Arrogance Quote by Cornel West

Larry Summers is to modesty what Madonna is to Chastity.

— Paul Gigot

Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits.

— Thomas Jefferson

Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Larry (Summers - director of the National Economic Council) taught me two very important lessons. The first: Never judge a book by its cover…

— Alyssa Mastromonaco

“He (Larry Summers) can frame arguments with such force and conviction that people think he knows more than he does.”

— Ron Suskind

“Larry Summers is one such rare insider. His question to me was in fact an invocation to reject the lure of the outside. Underpinning…

— Yanis Varoufakis

We don't hear our president [Barack Obama] talking about the need for high-quality jobs for everybody, giving it priority, not just giving a speech…

— Cornel West

There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.

— Cornel West

I'm not pessimistic, because poor people tend to bounce back. We've been through worse than this - working people been through worse than this.…

— Cornel West

The problem is that affirmative action could never really get at the issue of corporate power in the workplace, and so you ended up…

— Cornel West

Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy a better…

— Cornel West

“My aim is not to provide excuses for black behavior or to absolve blacks of personal responsibility. But when the new black conservatives accent…

— Cornel West