Jean Ziegler Quotes

#1. 1 billion people are permanently and seriously malnourished. Every five seconds, a child dies.

Jean Ziegler

#2. Switzerland has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, the strongest currency and the largest financial center for foreign assets. And we're a small country with no natural resources. Switzerland is the world capital of dealing in stolen goods.

Jean Ziegler

#3. Today, some of the most spiritual people I know claim to be without religion.

Tony Campolo

#4. Minds do not leap. Observation, evaluation, and iteration, not sudden shifts of perception, solve problems and lead us to creation.

Kevin Ashton

#5. No boundary condition: The idea that the universe is finite but has no boundary (in imaginary time).

Stephen Hawking

#6. I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

Mari Evans

#7. Money comes to Switzerland through three illegal sources: tax evasion in other developed countries, the blood money of dictators and other rulers in the Third World and organized crime.

Jean Ziegler

#8. A child who dies from hunger is a murdered child.

Jean Ziegler

#9. My parents never said I had to be 16 to date, but that has been the rule for all my friends.

Miranda Cosgrove

#10. The structure of the Swiss ruling class is rock-hard, and unchanged since the time of Napoleon. They sit on their mountains and lecture the world on democracy. It's an unbelievable show of self-satisfaction and arrogance.

Jean Ziegler

#11. The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.

Jack Germond

#12. Switzerland has no competition. It sits in the middle of Europe, it has the highest technological development, it's legally safe and the political circumstances are never going to change.

Jean Ziegler

#13. It's not that the wind is blowing, it's what the wind is blowing.

Randall Munroe

#14. Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by

J.R.R. Tolkien

#15. Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.

Michael Ignatieff

#16. Agrofuel is a crime against humanity and I believe there should be a moratorium put in place until there is some way to eradicate the many problems it creates.

Jean Ziegler

#17. It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call yourself an artist and you can do all these things.

Jan Peacock

#18. I don't waste money on smart, expensive clothes.

Kirsty Gallacher

#19. Let's fly away and live forever

Orson Scott Card

#20. I like to keep my issues drawn, it's always darkest before the dawn.

Florence Welch

#21. It is my belief that industry and government around the world should work even more closely to protect the privacy and security of Internet users, and promote the exchange of ideas, while respecting legitimate government considerations.

Bill Gates

#22. We need to crush the Invisible Hand. The economy isn't a natural phenomenon. It is just a tool or a mean, that should be dedicated to one only goal; the pursuit of global prosperity.

Jean Ziegler

#23. Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies

Jean Ziegler

#24. The American obliviousness towards the suffering of Palestinians refugees plays a major part in radicalizing people. And we are fanning the flames of puritanism.

Khaled Abou El Fadl