#ions

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood. ↗

— Eric Ambler

#business #conduct #human #human blood #ink

All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise. ↗

— John Amery

#any #commence #distinctions #men #open

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#architecture #close #contact #culture #harmonious

It's hard to do that with people who think emotionally. A lot of people think in terms of people, emotions, and feelings. That's more complicated. Engineering mentality makes it, in theory, a little easier. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#easier #emotionally #emotions #engineering #feelings

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart. ↗

— Mario Andretti

#business #decisions #facts #heart #i

God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself. ↗

— Norman Angell

#cannot #conquered #destroyed #except #god

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#civil #contention #country #form #latest

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#lying #make #pick #power #revolutionaries

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#all nations #become #luxury #nations #only

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#best #collective #confessions #crime #discovery