#ect

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#ancient #apparent #aspect #athletics #cities

To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist's activity... In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#artist #central #china #essential #expression

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#architecture #bureaucrats #complicated #criticism #functions

Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection. ↗

— Richard von Weizsaecker

#inhumanity #new #prone #refuses #remember

Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas. ↗

— Jack Welch

#capital #changed #company #find #globalization

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies. ↗

— Jack Welch

#bring #ideas #intellectual #into #managers

I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians. ↗

— James Welch

#always #being #called #happened #i

I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another. ↗

— Peter Welch

#barber #bookstores #business #businesses #check

Question for your life: Let’s say we’re making love on the moon, and my clone decides to show up. Would you tell either me or him to get lost? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#love #moon #question #rejection #sex

The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the 'Campaign to Fix the Debt' for calling attention to one of the country's most pressing problems, our ballooning national debt, and for urging policymakers to find practical solutions. ↗

— Peter Welch

#attention #calling #campaign #citizen #cooperation