Logo
Quote by David Rockefeller
Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform soc

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector. – David Rockefeller

Other quotes by David Rockefeller

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. – David Rockefeller

Category:
Education
Author
David Rockefeller
Read Quote

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes. – David Rockefeller

Category:
design
Author
David Rockefeller
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Society
category
[The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their bible is the computer printout; their communion bench is the committee room. – J.K. Galbraith, The Age of Uncertainty, 1977

Category:
Society

I think its great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view. – Bjorn Lomborg

Category:
Society

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals. – Ramsey Clark

Category:
Society

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. – Raymond Chandler

Category:
Society

Random Quotes

A film is a petrified fountain of thought. – Jean Cocteau

Category:
movies

To accept reality is only to encourage it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Reality

A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next. – Neale Donald Walsch

Category:
Experience

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions – adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Category:
Science