Baroness Lawrence Quotes

#1. A change of heart is the essence of all other change, and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.

Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence

#2. In a world where people are too languid to make something of themselves out of effort, I sell them hope. What they do with it is up to them. Invariably they drink it and then hurl it down a gutter, but that's their choice and their freedom. I won't judge them.

E.A.A. Wilson

#3. There are only two forces that can withstand the force of the war's spirit when it seizes upon the world. The one is the force of an independently thinking, free, and articulate democracy. The other is the force of an instructed and enlightened public opinion.

Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence

#4. It has been claimed that the aim of the present war is to end war. But war cannot end war, neither can militarism destroy militarism.

Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence

#5. I want to be president mainly for what I don't want to do: I don't want to run your life, I don't want to run the economy, and I don't want to police the world.

Ron Paul

#6. We are not smart enough to leave things to the market.

Ha-Joon Chang

#7. A butte is taller than it is wide, whereas a mesa, like this one, is wider than it is tall.

Craig Johnson

#8. My life is a fairy tale. You could not make it up.

Elio Di Rupo