#ria

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#effective #enters #everything #factor #highly

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#bloodshed #detail #exceed #hard #harder

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#big business #business #dirty #england #like

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#apologists #ask #centuries #culture #degrades

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society. ↗

— John Naisbitt

#managerial #shifting #society

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#comedy #deepest #hysteria #moment #writes

We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race. ↗

— John Naisbitt

#demands #human #human race #learn #material

If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now. ↗

— Fatos Nano

#country #destroyed #entrepreneurial #entrepreneurial spirit #financial

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#alliance #birthdays #forgets #never #other

What we're doing is making sure that we have a safe and secure border region from San Diego all the way to Brownsville. And that means manpower, it means technology, it means infrastructure, it means interior enforcement. All, you know, kind of layered in appropriate ways, and making sure, like I said before, the border is safe and secure. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#before #border #diego #doing #enforcement