#so

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#contracts #enter #free #free men #into

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#myself #other #particular #should #socialism

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#africa #black #brought #constitutes #effort

My son has died of AIDS. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#died #son

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#establish #freedom #help #important #individual

Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#always #arrives #big #buffer #computer

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#apply #developed #i #like #market

I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#britain #eu #europe #i #i do

In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#anatomy #because #direct #dirty #experience

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#belly #big #concealing #consequences #exposed