George Soros quote: "A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to."

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality...
GEORGE SOROS

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wron...
GEORGE SOROS

Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.
GEORGE SOROS

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wron...
GEORGE SOROS

Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.
GEORGE SOROS

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... Th...
GEORGE SOROS

Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
GEORGE SOROS

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open societ...
GEORGE SOROS

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvio...
GEORGE SOROS

There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. The policies of the Bush administration and the Sh...
GEORGE SOROS

President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American valu...
GEORGE SOROS

When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways,...
GEORGE SOROS

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is make by discounting the obvio...
GEORGE SOROS

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wro...
GEORGE SOROS

Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforceme...
GEORGE SOROS

Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal ...
GEORGE SOROS

We have come to realize that a large hedge fund like Quantum Fund is no longer the best way to manag...
GEORGE SOROS

Up to those amounts the countries concerned would be able to access international capital markets at...
GEORGE SOROS

The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illega...
GEORGE SOROS

The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequil...
GEORGE SOROS

I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we rea...
GEORGE SOROS

Market fundamentalists recognize that the role of the state in the economy is always disruptive, ine...
GEORGE SOROS

balanced multi-manager hedge fund.
GEORGE SOROS

Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military pow...
GEORGE SOROS

I see tremendous imbalance in the world. A very uneven playing field, which has gotten tilted very b...
GEORGE SOROS

Throughout the 19th century, when there was a laissez-faire mentality and insufficient regulation, y...
GEORGE SOROS

To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are s...
GEORGE SOROS

This asymmetry in the treatment of lenders and borrowers is a major source of instability in the glo...
GEORGE SOROS

In my old age I have become somewhat conservative, ... But we will probably have a more mediocre per...
GEORGE SOROS

Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its bein...
GEORGE SOROS

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... Th...
GEORGE SOROS

We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addit...
GEORGE SOROS

The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we...
GEORGE SOROS

I don't think you will see the Fed jumping to interest rates,
GEORGE SOROS

It will require, I think, the release of funds and perhaps even an increased package to bring stabil...
GEORGE SOROS

Something really is broken in the international financial architecture, ... We're now in the 20th mo...
GEORGE SOROS

I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public rel...
GEORGE SOROS

Clinton has a concrete goal of getting China into the WTO, his near-term agenda is to get China in.
GEORGE SOROS

I really want to help people who are hurt. And if I do that, I feel that my money is well-spent,
GEORGE SOROS

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states...
GEORGE SOROS

It is a bizarre thing because I was the only one who was found guilty when the whole of the French e...
GEORGE SOROS

I think they got the facts wrong. There was no case of insider trading.
GEORGE SOROS

We must not forget; but we must forgive. Suffering often such compassion from the Jewish community. ...
GEORGE SOROS

I think that it will lead to reforms and I am sure that the region will recover because it has treme...
GEORGE SOROS

As the housing boom cools off, there will be a shortfall in demand (which will) affect the global ec...
GEORGE SOROS

I'm very worried about the supply-demand balance, which is very tight.
GEORGE SOROS

The conference is remarkable for its complacency -- it's a bit like dancing on the Titanic. They're ...
GEORGE SOROS

You have the potential of a breakdown of the entire system if you have a slowdown of economic activi...
GEORGE SOROS

Most of the capital (in Indonesia) is in the hands of limited business groups, which don't feel so s...
GEORGE SOROS

I think I lost my touch some time ago. I'm like an aging boxer that should not go into the ring,
GEORGE SOROS

This reorganization took place in the full glare of publicity and involved the departure of a large ...
GEORGE SOROS

The market today is dominated by much younger people who have not experienced a bear market.
GEORGE SOROS

The objective is to provide the best possible management for the assets of my family and foundations...
GEORGE SOROS

This segment has considerable momentum and people are not ready to jump ship as long as prices are r...
GEORGE SOROS

It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do n...
GEORGE SOROS

As I like to put it, we have hit pay dirt. The effort to cure the resource curse is a good example o...
GEORGE SOROS

I commissioned two political experts to advise me about what I could do to oppose the re-election of...
GEORGE SOROS

My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'...
GEORGE SOROS

The absurdity of its illegality has been clear to me for some time. I learned about pot from my kids...
GEORGE SOROS

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as ...
GEORGE SOROS

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong...
GEORGE SOROS

It’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you�...
GEORGE SOROS

My principle is to survive first and make money afterward
GEORGE SOROS

The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable
GEORGE SOROS

The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
GEORGE SOROS

I think the whole idea of eradicating the drug problem is a false idea, ... You can discourage the u...
GEORGE SOROS

This would enable the authority to set a ceiling on the amounts it is willing to insure,
GEORGE SOROS

I think the (Brazilian) government has done most of the things it promised to do on the fiscal front...
GEORGE SOROS

but recently we have seen financial markets sometimes move more like a wrecking ball, knocking over ...
GEORGE SOROS

No, because I've got the same courts that found me guilty in the first place.
GEORGE SOROS

So I think what needs to happen is he needs to be removed from power,
GEORGE SOROS

He is actually doing the right thing for himself because he is preserving himself in power, and he p...
GEORGE SOROS

It sounds like a careful step, not a huge expansion
GEORGE SOROS

It's a very, very troubling and troublesome development.
GEORGE SOROS

I expect by '07 there will be a significant decline in U.S. consumer spending, and I don't see what ...
GEORGE SOROS

If you have the rule of law, then you're going to get investment in factories. You have to assure or...
GEORGE SOROS

challenge the very concept of the 'war on terror.'
GEORGE SOROS

International capital flows must have been at the root of the problem,
GEORGE SOROS

This is unrelated to last week's events,
GEORGE SOROS

Over half of all AIDS cases involving children are directly related to unclean syringes,
GEORGE SOROS

There's (a) problem that I think is brewing, and that is the end of the housing boom in the United S...
GEORGE SOROS

The markets are always on the side of exuberance or fear. It's fear and greed. Right now greed has t...
GEORGE SOROS

I hardly knew the man's name, ... He really invented me. He needed me for his political purposes, so...
GEORGE SOROS

I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foun...
GEORGE SOROS

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pur...
GEORGE SOROS

My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work tha...
GEORGE SOROS

When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote ...
GEORGE SOROS

We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat u...
GEORGE SOROS

At present, the developed countries condescend to the developing ones.
GEORGE SOROS

Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing...
GEORGE SOROS

I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public...
GEORGE SOROS

Increasingly, the Chinese will own a lot more of the world because they will be converting their dol...
GEORGE SOROS

The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India.
GEORGE SOROS

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE

My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a br...
GEORGE TAKEI

Every historian discloses a new horizon.
GEORGE SAND

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
GEORGE SAND

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y...
GEORGE BURNS

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradicti...
GEORGE SANTAYANA

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they...
GEORGE CARLIN

I was doing a civil rights musical here in Los Angeles, and we sang at one of the rallies where Dr. ...
GEORGE TAKEI

'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 196...
GEORGE LOIS

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
GEORGE CARLIN

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and ye...
GEORGE ELIOT

Electricity is really just organized lightning.
GEORGE CARLIN

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE BURNS

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
GEORGE BURNS

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
GEORGE BURNS

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNS

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
GEORGE BURNS

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
GEORGE BURNS

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE BURNS

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
GEORGE BURNS

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could ...
GEORGE BURNS

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
GEORGE BURNS

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
GEORGE BURNS

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and ...
GEORGE BURNS

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at somethin...
GEORGE BURNS

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
GEORGE BURNS

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on ...
GEORGE BURNS

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
GEORGE CARLIN

I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they ...
GEORGE JONES

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right...
GEORGE LUCAS

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within you...
GEORGE STEVENS

The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The...
GEORGE LUCAS

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship mu...
GEORGE AYITTEY

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past,...
GEORGE SANTAYANA

I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gat...
WALLY GEORGE

I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
WALLY GEORGE

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, ma...
GEORGE GROSZ

I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
INARA GEORGE

I think a show is for fun, and the thing about playing live is that you make mistakes, and that'...
INARA GEORGE

I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A l...
INARA GEORGE

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

We must bring unity of spirit and purpose and condemn hatred and division wherever we see it.
GEORGE OSBORNE

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political iss...
GEORGE ORWELL

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of a...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The status quo sucks.
GEORGE CARLIN

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
GEORGE SEWELL

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE GISSING

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a r...
GEORGE ORWELL

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirte...
GEORGE BURNS

Praise the bridge that carried you over.
GEORGE COLMAN

We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al ...
GEORGE TENET

In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and eve...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
GEORGE MCGOVERN

Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.
GEORGE CARMAN

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
GEORGE CARLIN

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every libera...
GEORGE MASON

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
GEORGE MILLER

All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using...
GEORGE LUCAS

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
GEORGE CHAKIRIS

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come ...
GEORGE ELIOT

Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

You know what I've kind of come to realize is that I'm a huge Drew Barrymore rom-com fan. Th...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

It's better if you have a strong opinion on any talk show.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

For many years I've been using Swarovski accessories when styling editorial photo shoots and als...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

I learned everything about fashion during my time at the 'NY Times.'
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

For proper family portraits it's best to stick with classic, timeless looks that will not only b...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

The weight of a fabric is inconsequential, since seasonal dressing is all about layering.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

Photos convey a point in time, so for casual snapshots I say wear the trends so you have fun images ...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS

People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations ar...
GEORGE AIKEN

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
GEORGE WALD

Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated eco...
GEORGE AYITTEY

Sanity is madness put to good use.
GEORGE SANTAYANA

The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown o...
GEORGE MICHAEL

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
HENRY GEORGE

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pay...
GEORGE GALLUP

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an...
GEORGE ORWELL

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we...
GEORGE SAND

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your prepa...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before i...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
GEORGE ORWELL

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume...
GEORGE ORWELL

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of huma...
GEORGE ORWELL

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
GEORGE ORWELL

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire t...
GEORGE ORWELL

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
GEORGE ORWELL

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
GEORGE ORWELL

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality...
GEORGE ORWELL

A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.

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A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.

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