Professional Documents
Culture Documents
● Politics
○ “A house divided against itself, cannot stand.” - Abraham Lincoln
○ “Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the reason.” -
Mark Twain
○ “Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer,
but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let
us accept our own responsibility for the future.”-John F. Kennedy
○ “I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study
mathematics and philosophy.”-John Adams
○ “Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own
emptiness”-George Orwell
○ “Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one
before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it” - George Orwell
● War
○ “Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”-Martin
Luther King, Jr.
○ “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting” -
Sun Tzu, author of “The Art of War ”
○ “What is essential to war is victory, not prolonged operations.” - Sun
Tzu
○ “Speed is the essence of war” - Sun Tzu
○ “To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of
preserving peace.”-George Washington
○ “If you want peace, prepare for war” - Roman motto
○ “The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It
has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond
there is a different country.” - J. Robert Oppenheimer, inventor of the
atomic bomb.
○ “My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from
the earth.”George Washington
● Economics (BOOOORING)
○ “Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends.
Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies.
Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.”-
John F. Kennedy
○ “When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a
business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of
the business that remains intact.”-Warren Buffett, founder of Virgin
Mobile.
○ "The production of too many useful things results in too many useless
people."-Karl Marx, founder of communism
○ "A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national
blessing."-Alexander Hamilton
○ "There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best
quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest
wages possible."-Henry Ford
○ "Give me a one-handed economist. All my economists say, on the one
hand … on the other …"-Harry S. Truman
○ "Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality."- Adam
Smith, author of the Wealth of Nations (founding text of modern
economic theory)
○ “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the
baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own
interest.” - Adam Smith
● Funny Quotes
○ Poor people have been voting Democrat for 50 years… and they’re
still poor” - Charles Barkley, professional basketball player
○ “The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from
enemies, it comes from those who trust the most.” - Late American
poet, Jahseh Onfroy
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