"As a political activist you run the risk of having to settle for one compromise or another in order to achieve your goals. Artists face the obvious accusation of elitism. The fundamental principle of my work is that it critiques capitalism in very specific ways. I am not interested in generalized political rhetoric. Instead of "aestheticizing" political issues, I try to challenge ingrained perspectives."

“Exercise caution, as I have advised many people.”

“Business has a responsibility to give back to the community.”

Source : Ben Cohen, Jerry Greenfield, Meredith Maran (1998). “Ben Jerry's Double Dip: How to Run a Values Led Business and Make Money Too”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

“Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.”

“When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting his pulse, that the duration of the oscillations was independent of the arc through which it moved, who could know that this discovery would eventually put it in our power, by means of the pendulum, to attain an accuracy in the measurement of time till then deemed impossible, and would enable the storm-tossed seaman in the most distant oceans to determine in what degree of longitude he was sailing?”

Source : Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

“History will treat me right.”

“Lula's borderline too much of a good thing in lots of ways. It isn't exactly that Lula is fat; it's more that she's too short for her weight and her clothes are too small for the volume of flesh she carries.”

“I'll tell you, there were only a few games in my career where I was totally oblivious to everything around me, where I was in the zone.”

“where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?...”