A Quotes
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“Any society that justifies violence against any human being for any reason will be a violent society. It will ultimately infect and affect the whole society. Everyone will suffer.”
“Any society that produces twice as many lawyers as it does poets and preachers is doomed.”
“Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.”
“Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well”
“Any society that you build will have its limits. And outside the limits of any society the unruly and heroic tramps will wander with their wild and virgin thoughts…planning ever new and dreadful outbursts of rebellion.”
“Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.”
“Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.”
Source: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb
“Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that's in short supply can't be carved up and shared without destroying it.”
Source: Stand on Zanzibar
“Any society which is not improving is deteriorating, and the more so the closer and more familiar it is. Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually king of his company.”
Source: On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays
“Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.”
“Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.”
Source: Cloud Atlas
“Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members - the last, the least, the littlest.”
“Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -- the darkness that is always with us.”
“Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.”
“Any solid lighter than a fluid will, if placed in the fluid, be so far immersed that the weight of the solid will be equal to the weight of the fluid displaced.
On floating bodies I, prop 5.”
Source: The Works of Archimedes
“Any solution for the Iraqi problem cannot be reached without Arabs and Arab participation.”
“Any solution to a problem changes the problem.”
“Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.”
“Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.”
“Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Any sort of political correctness needs to be swept out of the way”
“Any sort of working drawings are simply diagrams. Architecture encourages your imagination to work that way.”
“Any sound person would likely run off, but thanks to her stubborn streak and some sort of crazy love for. . .crazy, she fell right into the world here.”
Source: The Heart of the Mountains
“Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.”
“Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad.”
“Any species that devours its natural environment will eventually fall victim to the resulting silence and I call the toxicity of silence: Extinction Silence”
Source: Curing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity
“Any spirit that permits compromise with the world is a false spirit. Any religious movement that imitates the world in any of its manifestations is false to the cross of Christ and on the side of the devil.”
“Any spiritual practice that draws our energy and attention "up" - without equally focusing downward - is inherently ungrounding and will make us out of balance.”
“Any spirituality can be enhanced with the practice or study of yoga.”
“Any sport that comes from Scotland is good!”
“Any sport that lasts six minutes, that's it, you can just imagine how intense it is, only six minutes long.If you try something, if you try a move, if you take a single leg takedown and it doesn't work, you don't give up. You don't give up; you will succeed. I think it's very parallel with the stuff that you have to do in the real world.”
“Any sport you're going to do, you're going to lose more than you win. People don't realize how hard it is to be an athlete. It's difficult.”
“Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter.”
“Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.”
“Any star thinks it's out of reach until it falls.”
“Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.”
“Any state with an initiative process is on our radar.”
“Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.”
“Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.”
Source: The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
“Any statements from the parents may seem like criticism or judgment by the child or adolescent. It's very important that the child or adolescent does most of the talking and the parent asks questions curiously to understand the perspective of the child or adolescent.”
“Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.”
Source: The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
“Any step away from the cross is a step in the wrong direction.”
Source: Because...
“Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.”
“Any stimulus package amounts to taking money from the pockets of some Americans and placing it in the pockets of others who have better political connections.”
“Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.”
“Any story dealing, however seriously, with homosexual love is taken to be a story about homosexuality while stories dealing with heterosexual love are seen as stories about the individual people they portray. This is as much a problem today for American filmmakers who cannot conceive of the presence of gay characters in a film unless the specific subject of the film is homosexuality. Lesbians and gay men are thereby classified as purely sexual creatures, people defined solely by their sexual urges.”
“Any story has a beginning, middle, and end, of course, but the question is, where do you start it exactly? It's about a guy who is murdered in a fistfight, but how does it evolve and what does it mean? That's what I discovered scene by scene, and this innovation of coming in as a first-person narrator was a complete surprise to me. It just happened.”
“Any story is better with a little love in it, right?”
“Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.”
“Any story that gets us thinking, and particularly young people, thinking why? Whether it's as a result of reading the book, or coming out of the theatre or the cinema, I think we should just simply be asking the question 'why'? Why did it happen to those people? Was it necessary? And anything that gets us thinking like that is really important.”