50 quotes found
“There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.”
“I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to his or her fellow human beings.”
“Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.”
“I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.”
“A great deal of what I say just leaves me open, I suppose, to a vast amount of misunderstanding. A great deal of what I say is based on an assumption which I hold and don’t always state. You know m...”
“When I stand on a street in a Canadian city and look across the street it couldn't be anywhere but Canada but how can I prove it?”
“No matter how many communes anybody invents the family always creeps back.”
“We make our own criminals and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also ...”
“In almost any society I think the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.”
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”
