#ilan

While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#constant #direction #generally #governments #headed

I think it's time for the people and the press, in particular, to be more vigilant about not giving equal weight to lies as they give the truth. ↗

— Joe Wilson

#equal #for the people #give #giving #i

Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved today. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#angels #humanity #interest #just #more

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#kingdom #legitimate #philanthropic

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.' ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#become #business #business world #create #different

Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow. ↗

— Orrin Hatch

#effective #enforcement #government #government regulation #hand

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. ↗

— Patrick Henry

#alone #battle #brave #god #make

On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections. ↗

— Eva Herzigova

#collections #i #milan

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#failure #national #philanthropic #succeed #will

I think we're in good shape, but the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is in some small way mitigated by the fact that we now have more people talking about it, thinking about it and working on it, so that we will be more vigilant and ready. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#fact #good #hurricane #hurricane katrina #i