Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him.

Alan Parker

The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.

Alan Perlis

One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.

Akhmad Kadyrov

One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Low views of God destroy the gospel for all who hold them.

Chogyam Trungpa

The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.

Chogyam Trungpa

Fearlessness is extending ourselves beyond our limited view.

Chogyam Trungpa

The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.

Ed Asner

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

Eric Alterman

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

Eve Ensler

The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.

Bernie Sanders

A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.

Pope John Paul II

The state of inequality between individuals and between nations not only still exists; it is increasing. It still happens that side by side with those who are wealthy and living in plenty there exist those who are living in want, suffering misery and often actually dying of hunger; and their number reaches tens, even hundreds of millions.

Pope Francis

Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.

Pope Francis

Let us remember well, however, that whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor, from the hungry!

Pat Buchanan

You may be sure that in this new international system, the American citizen will count for precious little.

Steven Rattner

The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

Charles Caleb Colton

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

Charles Caleb Colton

No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.

Charles Caleb Colton

Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.

Charles Dickens

Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.

Charles Dickens

It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.

Charles Simmons

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.

Charles Stanley

We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from.