Nick Bostrom Quotes

When we are headed the wrong way, the last thing we need is progress.

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• We need a president who is willing to uphold the law.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Law
  • Need
  • Willing

• The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Art
  • History
  • Today

• I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Progress
  • Reaction
  • Hopes

• The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Reason
  • Need
  • Made

• Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Find
  • Need
  • Year

• I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Women
  • Community
  • Progress

• We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Strong
  • Progress

• We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Great
  • Moral
  • Need

• I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Together
  • Play
  • Need

• I kept getting told, 'You need to bulk up. Burgers and shakes. Burgers and shakes.' That's never been my thing.

  

  Jack Quaid
  • Up
  • You
  • Never

• I really don't have a need to be on TV all that much, to be honest with you.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • You
  • Need
  • Honest

• As a businessman, you need economic certainty. On the tax policies. You need it on your regulatory policies.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • You
  • Need
  • Tax

• If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Need
  • Gun

• I feel like I need to continuously keep evolving and moving.

  

  Flume
  • Moving
  • Feel
  • Need

• You need to let go of your fear and anxiety of being judged by others.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Fear
  • Need
  • Anxiety

• There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Different
  • Think
  • Need

• People need revelation, and then they need resolution.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Need
  • Resolution

• Gentleman, I am a republican, a radical republican, a Black republican, a republican dyed in the wool, and for one I want the republican party to live as long as I do… It is the party of law and order, of liberty and progress, of honor and honesty, as against disloyalty, moral stagnation, dishonest voting, and repudiation.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Long
  • Live
  • Black

• Giving that is not motivated by love is worth nothing.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Motivated

• Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • God
  • Remember
  • History

• You can and must understand computers now!

  

  Ted Nelson

• The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly 'veneration of wealth' are now de facto in force and higher than the Founding Fathers could have imagined.

  

  Bill Moyers

• When we are headed the wrong way, the last thing we need is progress.

  

  Nick Bostrom
  • Progress
  • Need
  • Wrong Way