Iain Banks Quotes

The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others

Iain Banks

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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.

Brown Campbell
- Experience
- Issue
- U.S.
At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

Walter Kirn
- College
- Language
- Poet
Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.

Ma Jun
- Good
- Long
- Health
There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.

Malcolm Wallop
- Freedom
- Place
- Traditions
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

Ira Glass
- Women
- Woman
- Year
I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.

Abby Wambach
- World
- Change
- Possible