Rockefeller Family/members of The Rockefeller Family

Famous quotes containing the words rockefeller, family and/or members:

    “Maybe this is like the Old Testament. It was visited upon us and maybe we’re going to benefit from it.”
    —Nelson A. Rockefeller (1908–1979)

    “A family with the wrong members in control—that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)

    “The members of a body-politic call it “the state” when it is passive, “the sovereign” when it is active, and a “power” when they compare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title “people,” and they refer to one another individually as “citizens” when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as “subjects” when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state.”
    —Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)