"The more you know, the more you see"

“Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.”

Source : Milton Friedman (1990). “Friedman in China”

“If the incentives are aligned right - towards better preservation and restoration of nature and natural resources - then you'll see a tremendous amount of activity in that direction.”

“If you want to serve the age, betray it.”

Source : "The Book of Judas". Book by Brendan Kennelly, 1991.

“Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.”

“It's [“Into Thin Air”] there in print forever. It's part of history. People should be above taking someone else down. And for what? For money and egos people are willing to destroy other people to further their careers.”

“Goals achieved with little effort are seldom worthwhile or lasting.”

“The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”

Source : "White Racism and Black Consciousness" (paper presented at workshop sponsored by Abe Bailey Institute of Interracial Studies),Cape Town, South Africa, Jan. 1971

“The prosecution of [Warren] Hastings, though he should escape at last, must have good effect. It will alarm the servants of the Company in India, that they may not always plunder with impunity, but that there may be a retrospect; and it will show them that even bribes of diamonds to the Crown may not secure them from prosecution.”