"There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege."

“What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.”

“The single biggest issue that I'm very sensitive to is inflation. I'm very concerned that this extended period where the interest rates were quite low and stimulated a lot of activity could breed inflation and create a problem for us.”

Source : "Zell tells of optimistic outlook on real estate". Interview with Denny Gainer, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 2, 2004.

“The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics ...”

Source : Ama Ata Aidoo (2015). “No Sweetness Here and Other Stories”, p.57, The Feminist Press at CUNY

“If you're asking me do we want clean air and clean water? Yes. Do we want a safer climate for future generations of the world? Of course we want that. We're working super hard here in Trump Tower to make sure that happens.”

“I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything.”

“As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.”

Source : 1926 The Acquisitive Society.

“Proof, being the highest level of reproduction activity, has an important interiorization aspect: as Yuri Manin stresses in his book Provable and Unprovable, a proof becomes such only after it is accepted (as the result of a highly rigorous process) ... Manin describes the act of acceptance as a social act; however, the importance of its personal, psychological component can hardly be overestimated.”

“I love the band Haim. I would love to do something with them.”