Daniel Suarez Quotes

I'm against unanswerable concentrations of power, whether that be government or private industry or religious figures - anybody who is not accountable to the larger social climate or society for the power they wield, that concerns me. I'm very pro-democracy.

Daniel Suarez

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• Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• Right when 'High School Musical' was taking off, one of my little cousins called and was really excited to tell me there was a huge 'I Hate Zac Efron' club at her school. I'm sure they're doing great. More power to them.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Great
  • School
  • Power

• For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Free
  • Respect

• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Happiness

• As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • People
  • Religious
  • Beliefs

• There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Up
  • Power
  • Age

• Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Society
  • Individual
  • Early

• I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Religious

• It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Parents
  • Faith
  • Religious

• We must learn to set our emotions aside and embrace what science tells us. GMOs and nuclear power are two of the most effective and most important green technologies we have. If - after looking at the data - you aren't in favour of using them responsibly, you aren't an environmentalist.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Important
  • Power
  • Science

• Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Democracy
  • Israel
  • Middle

• While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Same

• The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Power
  • Future
  • Hands

• It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Power
  • Man
  • Free

• I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Moving
  • Democracy
  • Competition

• No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Long
  • Party
  • Wisdom

• Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Wonderful

• Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That's why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Why
  • America

• There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited as the British monarchy.

  

  Charles James Fox
  • Power

• I can deal with conservatives in a democracy. With real conservatives, I don't agree with them, but I understand why they believe what they believe and I believe they're being honest with me about it.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Democracy

• Ah, yes, I wrote the 'Purple Cow'-I'm Sorry, now, I wrote it;But I can tell you AnyhowI'll Kill you if you Quote it!

  

  Gelett Burgess
  • Sorry
  • Purple

• How do you make something the same but different? That's the question I had to deal with in my approach to the cover painting for 'Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes.' I wanted it to have many similarities to 'Percy Jackson's Greek Gods,' but I knew they couldn't be too similar.

  

  John Rocco
  • Different
  • Question
  • Painting

• I'm against unanswerable concentrations of power, whether that be government or private industry or religious figures - anybody who is not accountable to the larger social climate or society for the power they wield, that concerns me. I'm very pro-democracy.

  

  Daniel Suarez
  • Power
  • Society
  • Religious