David Kirkpatrick Quotes

“I never wanted to run a company.To me a business is a good vehicle for getting stuff done. Mark Zuckerberg in The Facebook Effect written by David Kirkpatrick”

“A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.”

“I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.”

“Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.”

“Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.”

“A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.”

“We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.”

“Freedom works.”

“Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom security and the enjoyment of opportunity.”

“The concerns and methods vary, but there is to it all, at bottom, a message that is unmistakably Luddistic: beware the technological juggernaut, reckon the terrible costs, understand the worlds being lost in the world being gained, reflect on the price of the machine and its systems on your life, pay attention to the natural world and its increasing destruction, resist the seductive catastrophe of industrialism.”