Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Korten

The fact is that these bankers and traders are taking claims of wealth out of the system; they are not doing any productive work.

Michael Scott

We set out to capture what was happening, and then we cut that into the series.

The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.

Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces.

Lucy Stone

To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.

Lucretia Mott

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

Medgar Evers

Our only hope is to control the vote.

George Jackson

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

When we did the sign outside, we did not do the cigarette or the mug of beer because it was going to be outside. I wasn't sure if the city would object.

Many teachers are aware of the importance of video games to schoolchildren but are unsure of how they can be used and examined effectively in school.

Michael Scott

When they were in Papua New Guinea, God just totally grabbed a hold of Will's heart and totally changed him. And within three months he was saved and he's never looked back since.

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.

David Crane

Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.

David Crane

My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned.

Patricia Ireland

More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.

Jesse Jackson

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.

George Jackson

Growing numbers of blacks are openly passed over when paroles are considered. They have become aware that their only hope lies in resistance.

Kathy Acker

I don't think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It's something else. It's not banning. It's something else.

Carry Nation

I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.

Michael Scott

I am going to marry Fantasia. She just doesn't know it yet.

David Crane

One week before Pitfall! was to be released, I only gave you one life to play the whole game. I was experimenting with that concept as sort of the ultimate challenge.

Benjamin Tucker

I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.

Susan B. Anthony

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

Jim Hightower

If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?

Jim Hightower

There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.

Herbert Samuel

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Herbert Samuel

It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.

Herbert Samuel

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

Herbert Samuel

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

Charles Evers

Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black.

But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.

Dorothy Day

We and the Communists have a common idea that something else is necessary, some other vision of society must be held up to be worked for.