"The question, then, for Western companies, as much as for Western governments, is to decide whose side they are on: the Chinese officials who like to define their culture in a paternalistic, authoritarian way, or the large number of Chinese who have their own ideas about freedom."

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Source : "Battling the Information Barbarians". The Wall Street Journal, www.wsj.com. January 29, 2010.

Ian Buruma

#Government Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“Give people plenty and security, and they will fall into spiritual torpor.”

Source : Charles A. Murray (2006). “In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State”, Aei Press
“Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way we are strong, by borrowing the might of the elements. The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day and cost us nothing.”
“For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.”
“Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.”
“Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it.”
“In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.”

Source : Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.179, Prabhat Prakashan
“Sometimes the parallels that are brought in can make the play seem less relevant; you can deny a play's application to the universal by making it too specific. Sometimes having a modern context does make things easier to grasp; sometimes, you go, "Why have they got swords?" "Why didn't Juliet just text Romeo? Why did she bother posting a letter? Why was the Milan post service so bad?" It throws up irrelevant questions that don't help.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Ray Comfort's got a fabulous film. Oh boy, this is going to cause the halls of academia to have a few conversations around the cafeteria.”

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