Noteable Quotes

THEY represent the demand side of the political equation and are thus the ultimate guarantor of the democratic process. – Columnist Alexactus Kaure referring to civil society in his ‘Eye on Africa’ on Friday

TODAY education is regarded as the profession of the last resort. – Bank of Namibia Governor Tom Alweendo calling for ways to address the quality of teaching in his annual addressYOU use other people. This is what successful people do in all business, in all walks of life. – Stanley Bing in his tongue-in-cheek book ‘A Survival Guide to the New Workplace’ coming out tomorrowEVEN though they’re not stripping and taking their clothes off I think people are offended because of the idea that they do. – Larry Beard, marketing director of Deja Vu Showgirls, a Las Vegas strip club, who has agreed to stop an advertising promotion that involved hauling bikini-clad exotic dancers around in a truck with clear plastic sidesNO amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses. – Vladimir Lenin (1870 – 1924), was the Bolshevik Leader of the 1917 October Revolution in Russia, and the first Head of State of the Soviet UnionFrom the history booksA SOCIETY that puts equality … ahead of freedom will end up with neither. – Milton Friedman, US economist, who won the 1976 Nobel Prize for economics. Friedman, who was one of the most influential economists of the past century and a champion of free markets, died at the age of 94 on November 16, 2006