Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Durant

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.

Robert Reich

Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.

Warren Buffett

Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

Noam Chomsky

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

Walter Cronkite

To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. ... It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.

Willard Van Orman Quine

We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.

Wendell Berry

If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow involve within itself a ceremonious generosity toward the wilderness of natural force and instinct. The farm must yield a place to the forest, not as a wood lot, or even as a necessary agricultural principle but as a sacred grove - a place where the Creation is let alone, to serve as instruction, example, refuge; a place for people to go, free of work and presumption, to let themselves alone. (pg. 125, The Body and the Earth)

Ovid

Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.

Ovid

Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.

Poul Anderson

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

Oscar Wilde

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

Laurence D. Fink

When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me its a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.

Lafcadio Hearn

I may venture to say, loosely, that in Judo there is a sort of counter for every twist, wrench, pull, push or bend. Only the Judo expert does not oppose such movements at all. No, he yields to them. But he does much more than yield to them. He aids them with a wicked sleight that causes the assailant to put out his own shoulder, to fracture his own arm, or in a desparate case, even to break his own neck or back.

Jesper Parnevik

I would say it's like Pinehurst but maybe that's giving it too much credit.

David Jones

Greenspan is giving the markets a reality check. Good for him.

Tony Wingen

He's a force. We were willing to give up some inside points as long as we were not giving up 3-pointers. We did all that we needed to do to win.

Jeanine Pirro

Today is about thanking them for what they're doing in advance, giving them the support they need to go through the school year.

Andy Bechtolsheim

We looked really hard and long at (HTX). We didn't think giving up resources for this slot was a good choice.

Ron Wilson

I didn't like the way we were giving up goals in the third period. We need to show more poise, but our offense was there as it has been for the last three games.

Jamie Sharper

I don't know why they're giving up the sacks, or what the mood is that the guys are going through, ... But hopefully they'll give up 20 this weekend to us because I need my first sack of the season. That's what I'm looking for.

Jan Ullrich

I am disappointed today, of course. It was actually going well until the rain. But I have a good team and we are not giving up.

Tessa Jowell

I am giving local authorities the power to run licensing regimes in their own areas. They have the local knowledge, the know-how and are accountable to the local electorate.