Provoking Quotes - Page 13

• However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.

  Joe Slovo

  Enemy, Resistance, Violence

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• As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Two, World

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• The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Thinking, Ideas, Clothes

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• If an agency is the ultimate judge in every case of conflict, then it is also judge in all conflicts involving itself. Consequently, instead of merely preventing and resolving conflict, a monopolist of ultimate decision making will also cause and provoke conflict in order to settle it to his own advantage. That is, if one can only appeal to the state for justice, justice will be perverted in the favor of the state, constitutions and supreme courts notwithstanding.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Order, Agency, Justice

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Sukrit Sabhlok (2012). “Journal of Peace, Prosperity and Freedom: Volume 1 (2012)”, p.19, Createspace Publishing

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• You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.

  Francis Chan

  Thought Provoking, Effort, Excellence

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• We have the knowledge, resources, and capabilities to make global capitalism work in a more inclusive and socially responsible manner while retaining - indeed enhancing - its economic benefits.

  John Dunning

  Challenges, Inspire, Benefits

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• One should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry

  Pope Pius XI

  Community, Challenges, Inspire

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• Man was not made for the service of economies; economies were made to serve mankind; and men and women were made - so we believe - to serve one another, not just ourselves.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Believe, Men, Challenges

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• Economics is (now) about emotion and psychology.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Psychology, Challenges, Inspire

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• Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.

  Jonas Salk

  Motivational, Dream, Thought Provoking

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• Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within eighteen months, or risk being left in the dust.

  Ginni Rometty

  Dust, Data, Thought Provoking

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• Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache

  Chinua Achebe

  Lying, Thought Provoking, Lizards

  Chinua Achebe (2017). “The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart; Arrow of God; No Longer at Ease”, p.226, Penguin

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• Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour and judgment.

  Amartya Sen

  Challenges, Inspire, Attention

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• We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Past, Organization, Broken

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.107, Lexington Books

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• There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the dynamic enterprise economy. (...) It empowers poor people from the bottom up. (...) A dynamic economic sector is the poor's best hope of escaping the prison of poverty. It is the only system so far known to human beings to take poor people and make them, quite soon, middle class, and some of them even (horrors!) rich.

  Michael Novak

  Escaping, Order, Class

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• Let us choose to unite the power of markets with the authority of universal ideals. Let us choose to reconcile the creative forces of private entrepreneurship with the needs of the disadvantaged and the requirements of future generations.

  Kofi Annan

  Creative, Challenges, Inspire

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.

  Chinua Achebe

  Men, Thought Provoking, Down And

  Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.153, Heinemann

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• This thought-provoking novel portrays the absurdity of our overbearing government bureaucracy with a story that is entertaining and fast-paced. The Taxman Cometh will become part of our national dialogue about taxes and freedom. And it’s funny as hell. Author Jim Greenfield is a cross between Ayn Rand and Monty Python. If enough people read this hilarious ‘man versus state’ book, the IRS will be put out of business, which is okay with me.

  Grover Norquist

  Book, Men, Python

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• He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.

  Chinua Achebe

  Brother, Thought Provoking, Fool

  Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.94, Heinemann

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• When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

  Chinua Achebe

  Thought Provoking, House, Ceilings

  Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.18, Heinemann

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• In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.

  Chinua Achebe

  Men, Thinking, Thought Provoking

  Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.86, Heinemann

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• What a man does not know is greater than he.

  Chinua Achebe

  Men, Thought Provoking, Doe

  Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.85, Heinemann

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• Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

  Amartya Sen

  Opportunity, Challenges, Inspire

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• Dreamers only dream, but creators bring their dreams into reality.

  Robert Fritz

  Motivational, Dream, Reality

  Robert Fritz (2014). “The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life”, p.118, Butterworth-Heinemann

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• Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power of the country, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or the support of any speculative idea, the State becomes for the time inevitably absolute. Liberty alone demands for its realization the limitation of the public authority, for liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition.

  Lord Acton

  Country, Class, Ideas

  Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom: Great Event”, p.239, VM eBooks

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