The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers’ strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer. – Andy Stern
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. – Amos Bronson Alcott
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions. – Abraham Lincoln
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn’t exist. – Bodhidharma
Ukraine must be permitted to bring their own relief supplies safely to areas in the east of the country that are controlled by the separatists. – Angela Merkel
I’ve seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn’t understand their comedy or their sensibility. – Carol Leifer
I bought a laptop in 1999, and it was quite liberating, because I could make a lot of my own decisions. – Bjork
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms. – Arthur Erickson
Companies, cities, and potentially even individuals could have a small refinery to make their own fuel. – Craig Venter
We can do genetics. We can do experiments on fruit flies. We can do experiments on yeast. It’s not so easy to do experiments on humans. So, in fact, it helps us, to interpret our own genetic code, to have the genetic code of the other species. – Craig Venter
Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems. – Alva Myrdal