Quotes of: Margaret-thatcher Keyword

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures

To produce a primary [karmic] cause which is potentially capable of having an effect, three things are necessary: intention, the actual action, and then satisfaction.

Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State

money has no essence. It's not "really" anything; therefore, its nature has always been and presumably always will be a matter of political conten­tion.

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora. "Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy. ...

A Girl of the Limberlost

Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.

Donald Johanson

The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake...can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.

Race And Democratic Society

Love and war, it seemed, worked by the same rules. One had to hurry, before the fires flared out.

My Name is Mary Sutter

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

Paul Farmer

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

Paul Farmer

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

Paul Farmer

I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti.

Paul Farmer

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

Paul Farmer

Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.

Paul Farmer

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

Ruth Benedict

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

Ruth Benedict

If you want to communicate with the American public, the literature tells you you've got to be talking at about a sixth-grade, seventh-grade level.

Richard Carmona

In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.

Samuel George Morton

Do we ever have to abandon all hope? Is it not perhaps a good thing that by refusing to give in to the evidence, the dreams that lie half awake in us all may persist?

Théodore Monod

My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.

Louise Leakey

All I do is look, listen and try to make sense of what I find, in biological terms.

Lyall Watson

Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer.

Lyall Watson