#con

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. ↗

— Nicholson Baker

#control #form #group #living #me

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#equality #fraud #freedom #lie #lying

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#appear #blow #colonial #colonialism #death

We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We need to embrace opportunities, but with the right kind of safeguards. ↗

— John Baldacci

#development #economic #economic development #embrace #homeland

The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it. ↗

— Adam Baldwin

#careers #control #covers #else #everyone

You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it. ↗

— Faith Baldwin

#anything #brotherhood #cannot #condition #contribute

I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year. ↗

— Ed Balls

#economy #foot #front #game #get

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. ↗

— Arthur Balfour

#enthusiasm #enthusiasts #few #moves #speak

The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted. ↗

— Jan Peter Balkenende

#cold #cold war #commanded #crushing #curtain

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always. ↗

— M. Russell Ballard

#convenient #correct #easy #may #politically