George Gilder Quotes
Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.
Quotes to Explore
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.
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My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
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Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
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I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
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Indeed, even if one believed that criticisms of Israel are by and large heard as anti-semitic (by Jews, anti-semites, or people who could be described as neither), it would become the responsibility of all of us to change the conditions of reception so that the public might begin to distinguish between criticism of Israel and a hatred of Jews.
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All I know is we're going into the All-Star beak on a positive note. But we haven't achieved anything. Nobody has done anything except gotten to the All-Star break.
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Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in your own hearts.
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I think I'm plain. I'm normal. I'm plain. I try not to stand out. I don't wear colors.
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Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.
