Quotations

The trouble with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur.
George Dubya Bush.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
Dwight D. Eisenhower.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky

Work is of two kinds: first altering the position of matter on or near the earth's surface; second, telling other people to do so. The first is unpleasant and ill-paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.
Bertrand Russell

People who drop small bombs are terrorists; people who drop big bombs are governments.
Brendan Behan

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell.

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competion there.
Indira Ghandi

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
Bertrand Russell.

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