Quotes of: Max Keyword

Dirk Calloway: [to Max] I just wanted to say, I'm sorry I threw rocks at you that day.

Rushmore

Rosemary Cross: I'll show you the door. Max Fischer: I'll just go back out the window.

Rushmore

Rosemary Cross: [to Max] You know, you and Herman deserve each other. You're both little children.

Rushmore

[talking about pink lemonade] The Baroness: Not too sweet, not too sour. Max: Just too, uh... pink.

The Sound of Music

Max: I shall miss all of you. I shall miss the money I could have made with you!

The Sound of Music

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

Michael Schudson

To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.

Todd Gitlin

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

Todd Gitlin

Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.

Ulrich Beck

We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

Joan Halifax

The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.

Kenneth G. Wilson

Leaders in China and India realize that science and technology lead to success and wealth. But many countries in the West graduate students into the unemployment line by teaching skills that were necessary to live in 1950.

Michio Kaku

You cannot create new science unless you realize where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this.

Michio Kaku

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

Peter L. Berger

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

Peter L. Berger

Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.

Peter L. Berger

My mom really raised me, so I took her name before I ever thought about having a career. It was for personal reasons. My birth name is actually Max Deitch.

Max Casella

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

Alice Hamilton

Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected.

Alice Paul

Thumbs up or thumbs down on a website is not a conversation. The danger is you get into a habit of mind where politics means giving a thumbs up or thumbs down to a website. The world is a much more complex place.

Sherry Turkle

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

Thomas Sowell