#understood

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#money #none #own #power #state

For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#better #better looking #cheaper #extremely #far

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. ↗

— William Penn

#end #few #ostentation #plainly #properly

And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change. ↗

— John Perkins

#aid #because #book #change #corporations

I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations. ↗

— John Perkins

#back #business #business school #corporations #i

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits. ↗

— John Podesta

#clinton #considered #his #i #i believe

I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me. ↗

— Andre Rieu

#black sheep #family #i #me #mother

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#destination #destinies #differences #each #man

Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done. ↗

— Alain Robert

#courts #discharged #done #every #every time

I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#i #liked #never #understood