Bill Bonner Quotes

A man on his owns knows that he is best advised to leave his dumbbell neighbors alone. But let him join a political party, and he fantasizes that he has the right and the power to tell everyone on the block what to do.

Bill Bonner

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• My father was in law enforcement growing up. He was a probation officer. And I've always understood the point of view of the peace officer, you know, because of my dad.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Up
  • Father
  • Law

• You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

  

  Ed Harris
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Often

• First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Prisons
  • Rid
  • Suggest

• Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process - and then letting go.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Process
  • Pushing
  • Mindfulness

• What you are will show in what you do.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Show

• The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Consequence
  • Attack
  • Defence

• To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?

  

  Confucius
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Pleasure

• Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpent-like qualities is to be sentimental, anemic and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Jesus
  • Qualities
  • Antithesis

• It's nice. You meet some of your neighbors while you're there.

  

  Chris Stein Blondie
  • Nice
  • Neighbors

• They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Neighbors

• In our interdependent world, our neighbors are not only on our street, but can be ten thousand miles away on an island in rising seas.

  

  Achim Steiner
  • Street
  • Neighbors
  • Miles

• I always had an affinity for older people. I had a job delivering newspapers, and one place I had to go was an old people's home. Some people would introduce you to their neighbors as if you were a nephew or grandson. They didn't get many visitors, so they acted like you were coming to see them. And that stuck with me for a long time.

  

  John Prine
  • Time
  • Home
  • Job

• Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it.

  

  Edgar Friedenberg
  • Violence
  • Authority
  • Legitimate

• A man on his owns knows that he is best advised to leave his dumbbell neighbors alone. But let him join a political party, and he fantasizes that he has the right and the power to tell everyone on the block what to do.

  

  Bill Bonner
  • Neighbors
  • Advised
  • Political Party