Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Burnside

Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn't done in two years, I suspect there's something wrong and throw it away.

Evan Williams

I mistrust anyone... if they're saying, 'Well, that market wants this,' and you're not part of that market.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Suspicion follows close on mistrust.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Better mistrust undeserved than rash words.

Emily Giffin

You can love someone you mistrust.

James Surowiecki

Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.

Alan Moore

I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.

Doug Aitken

I always thought about 'Station to Station' as an approach. It was about creating an alternative platform for culture where different mediums could co-exist.

J. J. Abrams

I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.

J. Michael Straczynski

I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.

Marshall McLuhan

The 'content' of any medium is always another medium.

Henri Matisse

I have been no more than a medium, as it were.

Richard J. Roberts

One always has to worry when capitalism has a role in health care. If you're just using health care to make money, you will treat the wrong diseases. Capitalism has its limits. There is a role for governments, and this is one where they should be involved.

Frank Lloyd

If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men to capitalize their labor.

John Mackey

Free enterprise capitalism has been the most powerful creative system of social cooperation and human progress ever conceived, but its perception and its role in society have been distorted.

Walter Mosley

We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you see yourself as an artist, which I do, then you can't be limited by that. You can't let somebody tell you, 'Well, you can only draw this kind of picture or write that kind of book.'

Noah Feldman

During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism on the other, and to preserve capitalism through regulation and a social safety net.

Noreena Hertz

I have problems with this very extreme form of capitalism where the pendulum has swung so far in one direction, where the focus is completely on the short term, and no one is thinking about the consequences.

Michael Moore

I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.

Annalee Newitz

Unlike economics, whose sole preoccupation in our finance-obsessed era is the near-term profit motive, history offers a way to place our tiny lifespans in a narrative that spans dozens of generations - perhaps even reaching into a future where capitalism is no longer our dominant form of economic organization.

Robert Kiyosaki

The rise in the price of gold is a sign that capitalism has stumbled.