Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clare Short

The latter-day robber barons are discovering that better conditions and rewards for workers pay off in a world where consumers increasingly demand ethical standards.

Franz Boas

Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways

Irving Babbitt

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

John F. Kennedy

The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.

John F. Kennedy

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Edward Heath

We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament

Audre Lorde

Revolution is not a one time event.

Charlie Chaplin

I don't want to create a revolution — I just want to create a few more films.

Charles Dudley Warner

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

Bill Ayers

Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.

Bill Ayers

Education is the motor-force of revolution.

Bob Marley

It takes a revolution, to create a solution

Benjamin Franklin

Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!

bell hooks

The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.

David Guterson

I'm not an urban person.

Camille Paglia

History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence.

Armand Assante

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker

Bruce Sterling

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.

Adam Savage

We're allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.

Aldous Huxley

All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.

Rose Davis

I don't think we've ever had the urban involvement that we've had with this year's hurricanes.

Narendra Modi

Urban development initiatives must match the aspirations of the middle class and the neo middle class.

Aubrey O'Day

I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try to blend the two.