“The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.” PoliticsBusinessWorstDiseaseDrinkingAlcoholExecutivesAlcoholismEgotismIcy Author:Robert Frost
“When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible.” PeopleShouldTurnsPoliticsPowerWorstBeing TrueNightmareConcentrationFar AwayVigilanceWorst Nightmares Author:Ken Livingstone
“But though Usury is in itself immoral, and justly condemned by every ethical code, its chief and worst defect in the particular case we are now examining, the growth of Capitalism and its increasing proletariat, is the centralization of irresponsible control over the lives of men: the putting power over the proletariat into the hands of a few who can direct the loans of currency and credit without which that proletariat could not be fed and clothed and maintained in work.” MenWisdomHandsPoliticsGrowthCasesEconomyWorstParticularCapitalismDirectCreditChiefsCodeLiberalismFedsEthicalCurrencyDefectsImmoralLoanIrresponsibleExaminingProletariatUsuryCentralization Book:The Crisis Of Civilization Source: The Crisis Of Civilization
“The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politic is at best a foolish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack.” PeopleMenBodyAbleEvilPoliticsAnswersPerfectDealsEconomyWorstLessonsFoolishCuresLiberalismVisionariesPatentsQuacks Book:History as Literature and Other Essays Source: History as Literature and Other Essays
“It is perfectly clear that people, given no alternative, will choose tyranny over anarchy, because anarchy is the worst tyranny of all... The special nature of liberties is that they can be defended only as long as we still have them. So the very first signs of their erosion must be resisted, whether the issue be domestic surveillance by the Army, so-called preventive detention, or the freedom of corporate television, or that of a campus newspaper.” PeopleFirstsLongStillsPoliticsGivenLibertyEconomyIssuesClearWorstSpecialTelevisionArmyNewspapersTyrannyAlternativesCorporateLiberalismAnarchySurveillanceCampusErosionDetention Author:Eric Sevareid
“We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.” IfsUsePoliticsWorstSouthClimateClimate ChangeSouth AfricaCarbonTactics Author:Desmond Tutu
“We are the richest country in the world. We spend more on health care than any other country. Yet we have the worst health care in the Western world. Come on. We can do better than this.” WorldCountryCarePoliticsCan DoWealthWorstHealthWesternHealth CareOther CountriesWestern World Author:Michael Moore
“The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.” PoliticalGamesPoliticsHistoryMiddleWorstMajority Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER