"Well, you can do whatever you want, but just donâ€™t call it inequality. Put the word poverty there. Because we have many rich people on our board, and when they see the word poverty that makes them feel good, because [it means] theyâ€™re really nice people who care about the poor. When they see the word inequality it makes them upset, because [it means] you want to take money from them."

-- Branko Milanovic

#Nice Quotes #Mean Quotes #People Quotes

“I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.”
“San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.”
“I never assign blame in a crisis. There is no benefit to doing so.”
“Well yoy did it,"I congratulated Patch. "IÂ´m as trained as IÂ´ll ever be-a lean, mean sword-fighting machine. I should have made you my personal trainer from day one." A rogue smile surfaced, slow and wicked. " No match for Patch." Patch&Nora (p.379)”
“Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.”
“The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.”
“Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not on the conscience of judges and juries but on the competition of other ideas.”
“Ego is a ghost who is terrified of dying”

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