"the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century."

-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

#Political Quotes #Rich Quotes #Poor Quotes

“If he takes the option of dropping behind the point where the ball rests, keeping in line with the pin, his nearest drop is Honolulu.”
“Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.”
“The Christian religion, outwardly and even in intention humble, does, without meaning it, teach man to regard himself as the most important of all created things. Man surveys the starry heavens and hears with his ears of the plurality of worlds; yet his religion bids him believe that his alone out of these innumerable spheres is the object of his master's love and sacrifice.”

Source : Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”
“You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.”
“Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.”
“Ever since I was a small child, Ive had this feeling - its in my nature, and so its not even pretentious - that if everyones going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance.”
“Its contempt for citizens ... is so routine, and so unlimited, that the agency has become a kind of Frankenstein, running wild and terrorizing Americans at will. The IRS hypocritically requires mistake-free returns when its own books are in shambles. It demands exorbitant sums of money without regard to the accuracy of its claims. It doesn't hesitate to use every possible maneuver to get what it wants, sometimes destroying businesses -- and lives -- in the process.”
“There's part of me that feels a privilege not to do music, but to do what everybody should be allowed to do, which is to do what you're driven to do.”

Source : "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.

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