Quotes of: Pope-john-paul-ii Keyword

We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort.

John Perkins

We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we were winning the Cold War or in the 1940s during World War II, the responsible thing to do has been to borrow money to win the war.

Ken Mehlman

I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations dest...

Bayard Rustin

Sometimes, I think I have the best job in the world.

Louis Susman

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

Pope Paul VI

Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.

Dale T. Mortensen

The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.

John Nelson Darby

Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.

Kurt Masur

During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.

Simon Sinek

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.

Frank Knight

And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists.

George Stigler

Unfortunately, a lot of economists wanted to make their subject a science. So the more what you do resembles physics or chemistry, the more credible you become.

Ha-Joon Chang

In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.

Lawrence Eagleburger

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

Stephen Gardiner

Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some e...

Neil Sheehan

When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.

Ertharin Cousin

After World War II it was decided that, in order to prevent the Germans and the French from having another war, it would be better to tie them together into one economic pact so they would invest in each other and have mutual stakes. Until now, that ...

Frans de Waal

If you live in Rome, don't quarrel with the Pope.

French

Ye may not sit in Rome and strive with the Pope.

Scottish

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

D. Elton Trueblood