We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.