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

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 ärmste Milliarde hat 1% Anteil am globalen Konsum.

Der reichsten Milliarde hat 72% 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.

The foundation of justice is good faith.

You have two choices: You can take what you're given or build with what you've got. I choose to build with what I've got and try to make the best of it because I've still been given a stage. I've still got cameras in front of my face when I want them, and I plan to run with it.

One good act of vengeance deserves another.

The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.

Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

When you have the ball in your hand youre the most important guy in the whole organization.

War and peace type products... cannot be added into a national product total until the differences in the valuation due to differences in the institutional mechanisms that determine their respective market prices are corrected for.

I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.

Sometimes the character will go into a completely different direction than I expected once the cameras start rolling. That's what I love about what I do.

Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.

Like many actors, I started off as a monkey. My first job ever was as an extra in Tim Burton's 'Planet of the Apes.' I'm the tiny little monkey in the background. I met Rick Baker doing that - then, because of my size and the fact I was older than 18, he figured I could double Daveigh Chase in 'The Ring.'

People say high school is about getting an education and getting into a good college to succeed in life. Well to me high school is about making memories and good times that will last forever.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

My first typewriter cost me $75. I can't tell you how many hours it took me to earn that money, or how proud I was of that object. I wrote my first books on it. They will never be published, but that's all right.

In every parting there is an image of death.

But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now.

There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.

What I do is create an aura of mystery.

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Dad I may not be the best but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And its not because Im so different from you either. Its because Im the same. I mean I can be just as hard headed and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.

I could easily escape to a hotel for a weekend and do absolutely nothing.

I shop online mostly. I like to shop from the comfort of my own home without a sales person bugging me.

I watch mostly independent films.