Quotes by David Rockefeller - Page 2

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.
David Rockefeller / Banker
New York
Cities
Economic
New York City
Plans
Powerful
World Trade
World Trade Center
Time World City
Attacks
Time World New
Center
City
Current
Number
Particularly
Hold
Put
Recession
York
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Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.
David Rockefeller / Banker
Filling
Innovation
Involved
Maintaining
Maintaining The Status Quo
Needs
Philanthropy
Public Sector
Social
Status Quo
Basic
Public
Simply
Innovations
Province
Quo
Sector
Status
Transform
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They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.
David Rockefeller / Banker
Art
Contemporary
Decided
Modern Art
Mother
Museums
Bought
Establish
Museum
Shown
Viewed
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Everything is in place - after 500 years - to build a true 'new world' in the Western Hemisphere... And what happens if we don't pass NAFTA? I truly don't think that 'criminal' would be too strong a word for rejecting NAFTA.
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Strong
Thinking
Years
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I think that the best hope for peace and prosperity in the world is greater cooperation among nations, which in turn will be produced if both our governments and the people of our countries travel more and get to know each other better.
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Government
Country
Thinking
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I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.
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Community
Corporations
Discharge
Function
Groups
Play
Support
Allocating
Begun
Communities
Helps
Important Role
Local
Suspect
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My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large sums to spend. So, she began buying prints and drawings. During my school days, I remember sitting in on many of the early meetings.
David Rockefeller / Banker
Buying
Contemporary
Contemporary Art
Meetings
School Days
Drawings
Large Sums
Prints
Sums
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I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
David Rockefeller / Banker
Friendship
Family
Friends
Relationship
Sad
Good
Money
Cease
Empty
Good Friend
Important
Material Things
Pleasant
Will
Things
Really
Life Sad Good
Life Good Relationship
Very
Lot
Am
Who
Basically
Contribute
Good Friends
Making
Material
Relatives
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Mother liked beauty wherever she found it, and she found it in many different places, both in nature and in contemporary art. And that's where they pretty much parted company. Father... anything that was abstract would to him automatically be not very good.
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Abstract
Contemporary
Contemporary Art
Beauty Nature Art
Automatically
Liked
Different Places
Parted
Places
Wherever
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This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long - We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.
David Rockefeller / Banker
Opportunity
Nwo
Order
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For more than 40 years, I have advocated the creation of a 'round the clock' community. This would mean, at the least, housing, schools and shops of various kinds alongside the commercial buildings. That kind of community had appeared in lower Manhattan in nascent form before Sept. 11, 2001.
David Rockefeller / Banker
Clock
Creation
Housing
Manhattan
Shops
Various
Alongside
Appeared
Buildings
Commercial
Round
Lower
Nascent
Schools
Sept
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If the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) raises the hackles of the conspiracy theorists, the Bilderberg meetings must induce apocalyptic visions of omnipotent international bankers plotting with unscrupulous government officials to impose cunning schemes on an ignorant and unsuspecting world.
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Government
Ignorance
Vision
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Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others. My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.
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Add
Beneficial
Constructive
Grandfather
Oneself
Philanthropy
Pleasant
Upbringing
Scale
Christian Ethic
Essential
Ethic
Pioneer
Practiced
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Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history.
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Chinese Revolution
Community
Successful
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I don't recall that I have said and I don't think that I really feel that we need a world government. We need governments of the world that work together and collaborate. But, I can't imagine that there would be any likelihood or even that it would be desirable to have a single government elected by the people of the world.
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People
Thinking
World Government
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I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures.
David Rockefeller / Banker
Education
Travel
Appreciate
Children
Country
Enough
Formal
Formal Education
Lucky
Needs
Order
Passionate
Traveler
Child
Buy
Nation
Cultures
Mingle
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Populists believe in conspiracies, and one of the most enduring is that a secret group of international bankers and capitalists, and their minions, control the world's economy. Because of my name and prominence as the head of the Chase for many years, I have earned the distinction of the "conspirator in chief" from these people.
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Power
Believe
Years
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There have been people.. ever since I've had any kind of position in the world.. who have accused me of being ruler of the world. I have to say that I think for the large part, I would have to decide to describe them as crack pots. It makes no sense whatsoever, and isn't true, and won't be true, and to raise it as a serious issue seems to me to be irresponsible.
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Power
Crazy
Thinking
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Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.
David Rockefeller / Banker
Family
Believe
Evil Government
Nwo
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It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.
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Determination
Light
Past
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I met many Russians over the years who were convinced my brothers and I were a cabal, pulling strings behind the scenes to shape American policy. The Soviets had no conception of how a pluralistic democracy works and believed elected officials, up to and including the president of the United States, were only figureheads acting out the roles dictated to them by the real "powers that be" - in this case, my family.
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Power
Brother
Real
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One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
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Opportunity
Business
Hard Work
Top Management
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We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years......It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.
David Rockefeller / Banker
New York
Grateful
Past
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