Craig Murray Quotes

One thing is plain in my old age. If you construct a human society in which one individual wields an enormous concentration of power, a high proportion of those who come to be that office bearer will be narcissist psychopaths. Because no-one else is so driven to acquire power.

Craig Murray

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• To Be
• One
• Psychopaths
• Wields

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• If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • World
  • May
  • Full

• I'm not a skinny girl. I push it. I'm at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I'm happy at all times.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Happy
  • Girl
  • Push

• People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • People
  • Time
  • Funny

• There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Religion

• You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.

  

  Olin Miller
  • People
  • Know
  • Worry

• Water.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Water

• I agreed the situation was sticky. Indeed, offhand it was difficult to see how it could have been more glutinous.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• Charisms are not distributed at random but are dispensed by God to supply what is needful and lacking in his Church at each historical moment. If they are from God, they usually do not flow with the latest fashionable trend but much more likely contain an antidote and remedy for the perils of the time.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Time
  • God
  • Church

• In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • Country
  • Power

• In fairness to Edwards, asking a trial lawyer to name his favorite moral leader is like asking the president of Iran to name his favorite Jew. (Answer: George Soros.) If you're keeping score, that's two major religions the Democrats lack a working knowledge of - Christianity and Islam.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Knowledge
  • Moral
  • Lawyer

• Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Children
  • May
  • Present

• I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Art
  • Hate
  • Habit

• The legal fight over climate change begins in the United States with the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977. Under the Act, the E.P.A. is required to publish a list of 'stationary sources' of air pollution, of which the most important are power plants.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Important
  • Power
  • Air

• I have so many indulgences - way too many. But I think also you work out to be able to eat what you want. You can be healthy, but you have to let yourself live.

  

  Elsa Hosk
  • Work
  • Live

• This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and laying the groundwork for a better future. And that's what we want to work on with Republicans and Democrats.

  

  David Axelrod
  • Work
  • Job
  • Future

• Getting a gun should be easy for good people and impossible for bad people. The only trick is telling the difference.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I've got friends who totally disagree on politics, religion, cultural things, but at the core, we're the same people.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • People
  • Friends

• As a journalist, I have wanted very much to find a way to write about the music industry, and it's been frustrating to me that that's never worked out.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Music

• I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was searching for not just knowledge, but also to mold a temperament, to cultivate a scholarly outlook.

  

  Li Keqiang
  • Knowledge

• I'm not going back to acting, and I'm not going to seek elective office.

  

  John Gavin

• Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture.

  

  Alex Winter
  • People
  • Movie
  • Culture

• If a new result is to have any value, it must unite elements long since known, but till then scattered and seemingly foreign to each other, and suddenly introduce order where the appearance of disorder reigned.

  

  Wilfred Bion
  • Result
  • Elements
  • Appearance

• One thing is plain in my old age. If you construct a human society in which one individual wields an enormous concentration of power, a high proportion of those who come to be that office bearer will be narcissist psychopaths. Because no-one else is so driven to acquire power.

  

  Craig Murray
  • Power
  • To Be
  • One