David O. Sacks Quotes

I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me and yet assure myself and others that I'm sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all possible means --- except by getting off his back.

As long as your robot isn't programmed by like Dr. Evil, I think you're going to be fine.

Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort of Candide: naive, and ill-prepared for and easily unhorsed by events. No doubt this pose costs him something in point of self-esteem. It is a pose, furthermore, which he often adopts at precisely the time when the record shows him to be knowledgeable, and when knowledge or foreknowledge would also confront him with charges of responsibility or complicity.

A politician who commends himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to do good with other peoples' money.

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

Don't ask people to do something you wouldn't.

Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.

But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.

What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.

It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.

It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

A.I. poses a potential threat more dangerous than nuclear weapons.

All that is unfair, offends us if it's not beneficial for us

All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.

The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest.

Think not the bigotry of another is any excuse for your own.

Practice yourself what you preach.

But, you see, that's the luxury of being a lout - you get to be selective about when you care and when you don't. The rest of us get stuck when your care goes shallow.

Now then, if we were to go the lowest road and plaster my face on the bottle of oil and vinegar dressing just to line our pockets, it would sink. But to go the low road to get to the high road- shameless exploitation for charity, for the common good- now that's an idea worth the hustle, a reciprocal trade agreement.

It's nice not to have to worry about constituents, now, I simply do what I want.