(35 quotes found)
“If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.”
John W. Gardner
“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”
“When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the US. government is virtually up for sale.”
“For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.”
“All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.”