Der reichsten Milliarde hat 72% Anteil am globalen Konsum.

Wir leben in einer Welt, in der die Grundregel anscheinend lautet, dass wir umso weniger zum BIP beitragen, je wichtiger unsere Tätigkeit für die Gesellschaft ist.

Das Regieren nach Zahlen ist die letzte Zuflucht eines Landes, das nicht mehr weiß, was es will und keinerlei Utopie mehr hat.

Je näher die Welt zusammenrückt, desto kleiner wird die Zahl der Gewinner.

Wir brauchen eine Umverteilung der Einkommen (Grundeinkommen), der Zeit (Arbeitszeitverkürzung), der Steuern (Besteuerung des Kapitals statt der Arbeit) und der Roboter.

Die reichsten 8% besitzen die Hälfte des globalen Einkommens.

Die reichsten 1% besitzen mehr als die Hälfte des gesamten Vermögens der Menschheit.

Die ärmste Milliarde hat 1% Anteil am globalen Konsum.

Wenn wir die Welt zu einem besseren Ort machen wollen, führt kein Weg daran vorbei, die Grenzen für die Migranten zu beseitigen.

Das Problem sind nicht die neuen Ideen. Das Problem ist, wie wir uns von den alten Ideen lösen können.

Intelligente Menschen nutzen ihren Verstand nicht, um die richtige Antwort zu finden. Sie nutzen ihn, um die Antwort zu finden, die ihnen gefällt.

Wer sich nicht an die Vergangenheit erinnern kann, ist dazu verurteilt, sie zu wiederholen.

Unser Ziel sollte nicht ein vollkommenes Utopia sein, sondern eine Welt, in der Phantasie und Hoffnung lebendig sind.

Nichts ist stärker, als eine Idee, deren Zeit gekommen ist.

What people are looking for are candidates and representatives that are going to work hard, tell it like it is. I'm unafraid to do things when it doesn't poll well.

We lock ourselves into our own philosophies, our own religions, our own walks of life, and if we fail, we condemn ourselves and then we get sick.

Beautiful dreams - if the world were more beautiful they would come true - But the world is relentless & cruel - people are - they must be, I suppose, or they could not live.

I've made a couple of films that were a little too wide and non-specific - like 'The Doctor.'

When you see another tall woman on the street, you nod, sort of like Orthodox Jews.

Listen, you only tease the ones you love.

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

All in all, we Muslims have only two holidays, and they're always getting moved around from season to season, from month to month, because we're dependent on the moon and not the sun, and unlike the Jews, we haven't created a leap year, so we have no Adar Bet.

The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.

We're gonna release a studio album probably a year from now and we've got these recordings that we did with Coco Taylor and Johnny Johnson, who was Chuck Berry's piano player.

As a comic, I've heard gunshots while I'm trying to get to sleep. I've performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said.

The first few weeks of being a mom were profound, not just emotionally but also, physically. All the changes you instinctually go through are miraculous.

Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices they hear in their heads. Of course, self-talk is thinking, and writing begins with thinking.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

Those who know how will always work for those who know why.

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

I swam in high school.

I realized a career is built as much on what you don't do as what you do do.

There are still forces in America that want to divide us along racial lines, religious lines, sex, class. But we've come too far; we've made too much progress to stop or to pull back. We must go forward. And I believe we will get there.

When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.

I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.