Quotes of: Stuart Keyword

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

Alan Dershowitz

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.

Daniel Yergin

Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.

Howard Rheingold

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.

John George Nicolay

The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

Manning Marable

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

Thomas Sowell

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

Thomas Sowell

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

Walter Kirn

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

Alfred Adler

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

Antonia Fraser

The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.

Emily Greene Balch

I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.

George Grosz

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

Paul Fussell

I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.

Robert Jay Lifton

Not all developing countries are the same.

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

We are living, we have long been told, in the Information Age. Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

Richard Dooling

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

John Bates Clark

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

David McCullough

Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.

Tavi Gevinson

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Knowledge And Decisions

Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.

Knowledge And Decisions