Ideas shape the course of history. – John Maynard Keynes
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Something as curious as the monarchy wont survive unless you take account of peoples attitudes. After all, if people dont want it, they wont have it. – Prince Charles
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. – Octavio Paz
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens. – Coretta Scott King
We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there wont be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others. – Noam Chomsky
My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineers mind-set: Everythings kind of a problem how do you approach the problem? – Bill Keller