“I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.” PeopleMadeBlackGrowthPoorBloodCapitalismPaidFortuneEnormousIndianBlack PeoplePoor PeopleFrontiers Author:Peter Matthiessen
“I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy, that set standards, make everyone else itch to emulate.” PeopleThinkingMadeStandardsEnormousPainterContributionCollectorsEmulate Author:Philip Johnson
“The decision to use the atom bomb on Japanese cities, and the consequent buildup of enormous nuclear arsenals, was made by governments, on the basis of political and military perceptions.” MadeUseGovernmentPoliticalDecisionCitiesMilitaryPerceptionBasesNuclearEnormousBombsAtomsArsenalAtom Bomb Book:A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat Source: A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat
“No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations which culture sustains as to wilderness, as that which declares that the world was made especially for the uses of men. Every animal, plant, and crystal controverts it in the plainest terms. Yet it is taught from century to century as something ever new and precious, and in the resulting darkness the enormous conceit is allowed to go unchallenged.” MenWorldWayMadeUseSeemsEarthFormCultureUnderstandingTermNatureAnimalDarknessCenturyTaughtCivilizationRelationPlantObstaclesEnormousWildernessDogmaCrystalsConceitWildness Author:John Muir
“We need not envy certain people their great wealth; they acquired it at a heavy cost, which would not suit us; they staked their rest, their health, their honour and their conscience to acquire it, the price is too high, and there is nothing to be gained by such a bargain.” MenMindMadeCertainGivenWealthClassConsciencePaidDearEnvyRichesEnormousSuitsPeace Of MindHonourBargains Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“If you've made a mistake, if you've made a blunder, admit it to yourself, and then go to the people affected by it and admit it to them, and tell them you're sorry. Full-heartedly and openly. The fact of the matter is, that people who do that make an enormous impression. It's the right thing to do. It's the moral thing to do.” PeopleIfsMadeMatterFactsMistakeMoralSorryEnormousImpressionThings To DoRight ThingAffectedMade A MistakeBlunders Author:Brit Hume