Ralph Nader Quotes
It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
Quotes to Explore
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.
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There is as much wisdom in soliciting good counsel as in giving it. The most sensible people are not reluctant to consider the feelings of other people; and to know how to submit to the wise guidance of others is a kind of wisdom in itself.
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Let's cease thinking of our accomplishments, our wants. Let's try to figure out the other man's good points. Then forget flattery. Give honest, sincere appreciation. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise, and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime - repeat them years after you have forgotten them.
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There isn't one celebrity I've worked with who doesn't have major doubts about what impact they are having. I am glad when they question the impact, because it shows they are based firmly in the reality that peacemaking isn't the same as changing a streetlight or distributing mosquito nets.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
