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The Chinese authorities think of artists as prostitutes. And in reality it’s true: in the Communist system artists just represent what the power structure seeks them to represent. It is prostitution.
Ai Weiweiborn 1957Truth to Power, 2008
- Art
I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington1769–1852When asked what he thought of the first Reformed Parliament (1832), as quoted in Words on Wellington (1889) by Sir William Fraser, p. 12
- Clever Jabs
Money and credit are as much human contrivances as bicycles, and as liable to expansion and modification as any other sort of prevalent but imperfect machine.
H. G. Wells1866–1946Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought (1901), The Faith, Morals, and Public Policy of The New Republic, pp. 340–343
- Economics
- Money
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author’s political views.
Edith Wharton1862–1937Letter to Upton Sinclair (19 August 1927)
- Writing
I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear.
E. B. White1899–1985Letter to the New York Herald Tribune (29 November 1947)
- Fear
It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
- Charity
- Economics
When a politician, on a subject implicating science — hard science, economic science, social science — says, ‘The debate is over,’ you may be sure of two things. It’s that the debate is raging and he’s losing it.
George Willborn 1941Discussion, Fox News Sunday, February 16, 2014
- Debate
- Science
Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
Tennessee Williams1911–1983Camino Real (1953)
Our industries have expanded to such a point that they will burst their jackets if they cannot find a free outlet to the markets of the world. Our domestic markets no longer suffice. We need foreign markets.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924
- Economics
RADICAL⁠—one who goes too far.
CONSERVATIVE⁠—one who does not go far enough.
REACTIONARY⁠—one who does not go at all.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924Speech to Kansas Society of New York (23 January 1911) — Wilson’s definition of different groups, PWW 22:389
A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924The New Freedom (1913), Section VIII: “Monopoly, Or Opportunity?”, p. 185
- Economics
- Money
American industry is not free, as once it was free; American enterprise is not free; the man with only a little capital is finding it harder to get into the field, more and more impossible to compete with the big fellow.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924The New Freedom (1913), Section I: “The Old Order Changeth”, p. 15
- Business
- Economics
No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924Speech in New York City (20 April 1915)
The success of a party means little except when the Nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924First Inaugural Address (4 March 1913)
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can’t nail them to a wall.
Frank Lloyd Wright1867–1959