Quote

The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.

William Greider

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Greider
Age: 83 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 6
Died: 2019
Died: December 25
Author
Editor
Journalist
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
William Harold Greider
Animal
Another
Admonition
Way
Reflected
People
Relate
Treat
Treats
Animals
Ways

More quotes by William Greider

Image
The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.
William Greider
Image
In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
William Greider
Image
Democracy begins in human conversation. A democratic conversation does not require elaborate rules of procedure or utopian notions of perfect consensus. What it does require is a spirit of mutual respect-people conversing critically with one another in an atmosphere of honesty and shared regard.
William Greider
Image
A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler.
William Greider
Image
Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare.
William Greider
Image
If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.
William Greider
Image
In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.
William Greider
Image
Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.
William Greider
Image
Money is power in American politics. It always has been.
William Greider
Image
A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?
William Greider
Image
Aside from sending someone to war or to prison, government s ability to make people involuntarily give over their money is its strongest exercise of authority over private citizens and their institutions.
William Greider
Image
The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.
William Greider
Image
The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.
William Greider
Image
Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.
William Greider
Image
If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human existence confined to the civilized societies that are wealthy enough to afford them? Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others.
William Greider
Image
Efficiency obliterates identity
William Greider
Image
Maybe the reason some folks lag behind in our free enterprise system is because they depend too much on the free part and not enough on their own enterprise.
William Greider
Image
The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.
William Greider
Image
When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.
William Greider
Image
Creating a positive future begins in human conversation. The simplest and most powerful investment any member of a community or an organisation can make is to begin with other people as though the answers mattered.
William Greider