Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yoko Ono

After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a pretty skeptical person, and I'm a realistic person.

Foster Friess

What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.

Radhanath Swami

Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.

Lewis Mumford

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

Alan Cohen

Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality.

Alan Cohen

Your thoughts do not create reality, but they do create your experience.

Nancy Roman

I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

Philip Dick

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Naomi Wolf

Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.

Ludwig von Mises

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

Ludwig von Mises

Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will

Gerhard Schroeder

We Germans know from our own experience that dictators can sometimes only be stopped with force.

Carl Safina

When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.

George Ayittey

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

George Ayittey

The only good dictator is a dead one.

Augusto Pinochet

I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there.

Augusto Pinochet

Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.