“I think we have different value systems." —Arthur
"Well mine's better." —Ford”
Douglas Adams book Mostly Harmless
Source: Mostly Harmless
Interview with CNBC's David Faber http://www.cnbc.com/2015/05/14/cnbc-exclusive-cnbc-transcript-dish-chairman-ceo-charlie-ergen-speaks-with-cnbcs-david-faber-on-squawk-on-the-street-today.html (2015)
“I think we have different value systems." —Arthur
"Well mine's better." —Ford”
Douglas Adams book Mostly Harmless
Source: Mostly Harmless
Mikhail Gorbachev (1931) General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
"Nature Is My God" - interview with Fred Matser in Resurgence No. 184 (September-October 1997) http://www.resurgence.org/resurgence/184/gorbachev.htm <br class="br">Context: We have retreated from the perennial values. I don't think that we need any new values. The most important thing is to try to revive the universally known values from which we have retreated.<br>As a young man, I really took to heart the Communist ideals. A young soul certainly cannot reject things like justice and equality. These were the goals proclaimed by the Communists. But in reality that terrible Communist experiment brought about repression of human dignity. Violence was used in order to impose that model on society. In the name of Communism we abandoned basic human values. So when I came to power in Russia I started to restore those values; values of "openness" and freedom.
Steve Huffman (1983) American businessman
In July 2015 about of banning hate speech in Reddit. As quoted in Open racism and slurs are fine to post on Reddit, says CEO https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/12/racism-slurs-reddit-post-ceo-steve-huffman (12 April 2018) by Samuel Gibbs, The Guardian.
Jane Goodall (1934) British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist
Frans de Waal, in a NOVA interview, " The Bonobo in All of Us" PBS (1 January 2007) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/bonobo-all-us.html; quotes from this interview were for some time misplaced on this page, which probably generated similar misattributions elsewhere, and the misplacement was not discovered until after this quotation had been selected for Quote of the Day, as a quote of Goodall. Corrections were subsequently made here, during the day the quote was posted as QOTD. <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Context: I think if we study the primates, we notice that a lot of these things that we value in ourselves, such as human morality, have a connection with primate behavior. This completely changes the perspective, if you start thinking that actually we tap into our biological resources to become moral beings. That gives a completely different view of ourselves than this nasty selfish-gene type view that has been promoted for the last 25 years.
Dan Ariely (1967) Israeli American professor of psychology and behavioral economics
free of charge sayings https://quotestats.com/topic/free-of-charge-sayings/ (?)
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714–1780) French academic
Le Commerce et le Gouvernement (1776), as quoted in Marx's Capital, Vol. I, Ch. 5.
“I think the problem is that we don't really understand what we are.”
Paul Watson (1950) Canadian environmental activist
"Sharkwater" documentary
Context: I think the problem is that we don't really understand what we are. In essence we're just a conceited, naked ape. But in our minds we're some sort of "divine legend", and we see ourselves as some sort of god. That we can walk around the earth deciding who will live and who will die and what will be destroyed and what will be saved. But the fact is we're just a bunch of primates out of control.
Julian Assange book When Google Met Wikileaks
Source: Julian Assange, "When Google Met Wikileaks" (ORbooks, New York, 2014), p. 118
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
Speaking to the Jewish Press (5 September 2006), as quoted in "2006 Audio Emerges of Hillary Clinton Proposing Rigging Palestine Election" http://observer.com/2016/10/2006-audio-emerges-of-hillary-clinton-proposing-rigging-palestine-election by Ken Kurson, Observer (28 October 2016) <br class="br">Senate years (2001 – January 19, 2007)