My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.

Serj Tankian

My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.

Vin Diesel

To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or that he is different; none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more that merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.

Helen Rowland

I will check the internet for at least an hour every morning scanning worldwide news to do with child abuse. So if you're constantly putting yourself in an environment where you're checking up on social economics or homelessness problems, if you keep yourself aware of it, you don't really have a day off.

Samantha Morton

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

Jim Carrey

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?

Robert M. Gates

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

Orson Scott Card

There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.

Gerhard Kocher

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

Alexander Berkman

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

David Lloyd George

Human has no experience at all aboutliving in a peaceful world without war.

Toba Beta