All Quotes

"Desires are nourished by delay."

"Farre folke fare best."

"It is better never to begin, than never to make an end."

"A man shall never bee enriched by envie."

"Experience the mother of wisedome."

"The better workeman the worser husband."

"Glowing coales sparkle often."

"Money maketh a man."

"Musicke is the eie of the eare."

"To promise, and to give nought, is to comfort a foole."

"He that seeketh, findeth."

"It is a strange beast that hath neither head nor taile."

"Good wine engendreth good blood."

"A wrangler never wanteth words."

"I am not only worried but I am also proactive about what needs to be done to change the present trend in the poor education standard in this country."

"I believe the overall nature of things in the country affect a lot of things including education because in those days especially in the 1950s, we didn’t hear of students having to pay to pass examinations. We didn’t hear of people having to buy result for admission as everything was done purely on merit."

"Q: What inspired you to establish Amana consortium Limited? A: The inspiration for the establishment of Amana Consortium is my passion for creative design from childhood. I have been intrigued by inspirational engineering design."

"We can break away from the old ways of doing things and embrace virtual learning."

"Q: What is your contribution to the economic growth of Nigeria? A: My contribution to the economic growth of Nigeria derives from the different areas of my engagement as an economic citizen. First, in the area of engineering practice, as the CEO of Amana Consortium, I have directed the engineering study, design and construction supervision of about 600 projects all over the country."

"Over the years, I have trained and mentored hundreds of engineers and managers who have worked in our offices or listened to my lectures."

"The future of popular-based social and economic changes does not he in parliamentary elections, given their elitist structure and the control exercised over the process. Movement politics linked to electoral campaigns has no future; nor does simple direct action in defense of particular local terrain. The future of movements must be rooted in creating autonomous electoral power anchored and coordinated with regional or national movements of direct action—dress rehearsals for creating a new state power response to civil society."

"The inefficiency of the state is directly related to its subordination to private interests."

"Most dictatorships have been anti-statist and pro-free market, today and in the past and probably in the future."

"...The counter-position of “civil society” to the state is also a false dichotomy. Much of the discussion of civil society overlooks the basic social contradictions that divide “civil society”. Civil society or, more accurately, the leading classes of civil society, while attacking the “statism” of the poor have always made a major point of strengthening their ties to the treasury and military to promote and protect their dominant position in “civil society”. Likewise, the popular classes in civil society when aroused have sought to break the ruling classes’ monopoly of the state. The poor have always looked to state resources to strengthen their socio-economic position in relation to the rich. The issue is and always has been the relation of different classes to the state."

"...The problem, we are told, is not foreign investments or foreign aid but their absence and they ask for more imperial aid. The political and economic myopia that accompanies this perspective fails to understand that the political conditions for the loans and investment is the cheapening of labour, the elimination of social legislation and the transformation of Latin America into one big plantation, one big mining camp, one big free trade zone stripped of rights, sovereignty and wealth."

"By the early 1980s the more perceptive sectors of the neo-liberal ruling classes realised that their policies were polarising the society and provoking large-scale social discontent. Neo-liberal politicians began to finance and promote a parallel strategy of “from below”, the promotion of “grassroots” organisation with an “anti-statist” ideology to intervene among potentially conflicting classes, to create a “social cushion”. These organisations were financially dependent on neo-liberal sources and were directly involved in competing with socio-political movements for the allegiance of local leaders and activist communities. By the 1990s these organisations, described as “non-governmental”, numbered in the thousands and were receiving close to US$4 billion world-wide."

"In fact, the industrial workers and in particular their trade unions have been the least active and least militant component of the anti-imperialist movements…"

"Anti-imperialist movements are no longer middle class dominated nationalist movements, they are class-based because imperialism is embedded in everyday work and household survival."

"Proclaiming 19th Century ‘liberalism’, British opium addicted over 50 million Chinese in less than a decade."

"Competition over shrinking resources intensifies conflict over shares of a shrinking pie."

"The trade unions, narrowly focused on everyday issues and their immediate membership, ignored the mass of unemployed, especially the young unemployed, workers."

"Class struggle according to the most up-to-date speeches of the labor bureaucrats was superseded by modern pragmatic understandings of the common interests of labor and capital."

"The so-called Eurozone is, in reality, a mini-empire of tributary vassals and imperial states reforming empires has been historically demonstrated to be a futile enterprise."

"In the short run there can only be international solidarity among the workers in the vassal states: the workers in the imperial states – the U.S., Germany, the Nordic states and the UK are still bound and tied to their respected ruling classes."

"James Petras is the undisputed foremost authority on the global and regional dynamics of US imperialism."

"...As always with Petras, there is much repetition/recycling of articles/ideas,much polemic and hot air but also a genuine engagement with the issues of revol-utionary transformation in Latin America, albeit from the perspective of the privi-leged peripatetic professor from the North."

"We go out of our way to ensure that we are not held back by any government bureaucracy. Covenant University receives no funding from the government; we pay taxes just like any other private institutions."

"We are not expending any energy trying to make the government see what we are doing. Instead, we are working on producing products that make visible changes in society."

"During this era of the fourth industrial revolution, what can African institutions do to ensure that they maintain their relevance?"

"We have to ensure we keep tabs with what is happening globally."

"he concept of glocalisation came about after we have looked at our immediate environment, looked at the present problems in Nigeria, Sub-Saharan Africa and Africa in general."

"We then started thinking of how we can provide solutions to these problems, through scientific approach, to proffering solutions to these problems, and by so doing getting global relevance."

"With glocalisation, we would be able to solve our local problems, through publishing of our results, disseminating knew knowledge created, and this way we get global relevance."

"In my country, where beauty queens are often applauded for speaking in English, I won my national title using Filipino, our national language. As a cultural torchbearer, I seek to lead the path in forging cross-cultural understanding among my sisters as your next Miss Supranational ambassadress."

"He was untiring in his efforts to conserve the moral life within his diocese, especially among the clergy and the religious orders."

"His own sanctity of life, severity of morals, and aversion to luxury made more resplendent his virtues and talents."

"To understand a great movement in the world of thought or action, it is usually necessary to approach it on its historic side. It is difficult to grasp its inner spirit and purpose, or gauge aright its possibilities and power, except one. bring to the study of its present condition a thorough knowledge of its past. The larger and more complex the movement is, the more important the study of its past becomes. Only in its history are we able to discern, in clear perspective, the principles that gave it birth, presided over its development, and form the mainspring of its present activity."

"The Nigerian government should implement the home management of malaria scale-up plan. Health care interventions are feasible at the community level and laypersons, if trained and supervised, could contribute to the health care of their communities."

"Getting to the people in the hard-to-reach areas and rural communities that lack amenities and drugs is an effective way of curtailing malaria in the country."

"If we have the community people doing it correctly themselves, it would go a long way in reducing the burden of malaria."