I Quotes
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“If people are teaching economics, they need to teach all the different disciplines, all the different schools in economics. They can't just teach one because then the person isn't equipped to deal with the economics profession.”
“If people are to be respected, they deserve to know who we truly are.”
Source: Creating Change Through Humanism
“If people are troubled by their view, they ought to offer these New Orleanians, and black and poor people in the places like the Lower Ninth Ward around the country, a reason to believe otherwise.”
Source: Down in New Orleans: Reflections from a Drowned City
“If people are upset because you’ve forgotten something, console them by letting them know you didn’t forget — you just weren’t remembering.”
—Winnie the Pooh”
Source: Christopher Robin: The Little Book of Poohisms: With help from Piglet, Eeyore, Rabbit, Owl, and Tigger, too!
“If people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.”
“If people are watching me 365 days a year, 360 days they might be bored to tears. And on the other five days, maybe I would qualify as Satan.”
“If people are watching television by themselves, it makes them part of a community of people laughing.”
“If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?”
Source: One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
“If people are willing to buy it and listen to it and they like it and enjoy it, then it's viable.”
“If people are working only rice and beans for much of their diet, it says something.”
“If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off.”
“If people are worried about unfair advancement, they should look at the sons-in-law of the world running companies. They've truly slept their way to the top.”
“If people aren't on board with your dreams, there is still that one man canoe. Sail on and slay on with it.”
“If people aren't there for you now, when you really need them, they never will be, and it's time to move on. You'll be amazed by how many new friends you have in the after. They'll be the ones who aren't afraid of sorrow, who know we can't avoid it. The best we can do is face it together.”
Source: Survival Lessons
“If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough.”
“If people aren't educated, they can't question. If they can't question, they can't change anything, which is great for the status quo and all the people who can question them at their own level.”
“If people aren't laughing at you, you aren't saying anything very unusual. So let your voice be loud and strong, dare to try things that may fail.”
“If people aren't laughing at your dreams, your dreams aren't big enough !”
“If people around me didn't lied, I would also won't lie!”
“If people around the world knew how well people at Guantanamo Bay are treating prisoners, they would not fall prey to the accusations that some in our Chamber are making. They are all receiving judicial review.”
“If people around you aren't going anywhere, if their dreams are no bigger than hanging out on the corner, or if they're dragging you down, get rid of them.”
Source: My life
“If people around you don't believe in you, if they don't encourage you, then you need to find some people who do.”
Source: Your Bridge to a Better Future
“If people ask me about it, I think it would be great for me to be like, 'Look, [Kanye West] called me and told me the line before it came out. Like, joke's on you guys, we're fine'.”
“If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.”
“If people ask me, I always tell them: "Quite well, thank you, I'm very glad to say." If people ask me, I always answer, "Quite well, thank you, how are you today?" I always answer, I always tell them, If they ask me Politely... BUT SOMETIMES I wish That they wouldn't”
Source: When We Were Very Young
“If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him' - which is how I feel. There are bad attributes of his that I really don't share!”
“If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.”
“If people associate you with the idea of loads of money, they in turn will give some of that money to you.”
“If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others.”
“If people bear the trauma of their ancestors, doesn’t it follow that they also bear their rhapsodies? If there is generational pain passed down, mustn’t there also be generational joy? If there are family curses that drop through time, mustn’t there also be family blessings that do the same?”
Source: When the World Tips Over
“If people become accustomed to lying, they will unconsciously commit every possible wrong deed. Before they can act wickedly, they must lie and once they begin to lie they will act wickedly without concern.”
“If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!”
“If people become happy not when a new church, a new mosque or a new synagogue is opened in the country, but when a new knowledge centre is opened, then it means they have reached a certain mental maturity! What humanity needs is not new places of worship, but new knowledge that can take humanity to new levels, to new places!”
“If people begin to be more grateful, they will see the wonders of life.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.”
“If people believe that marijuana helps their medical issues then they should allow people to indulge in those remedies. It is criminal that we do not encourage "science" to fully investigate the medical usages of pot.”
“If people believe that they are marrying out of love and free choice rather than out of duty, they are more likely to decide, if love should die, that the free choice to join together is no more significant than the free choice to part, and to look for love elsewhere; those married out of duty expect less love to begin with, and what duty has brought together, duty may keep together.”
“If people believe the government is giving them AIDS and blowing up levees, and that white-owned companies are trying to sterilize them, they would be lacking in normal human emotions if they did not—to put it bluntly—hate the people they believed responsible.
Indeed, vigorous expressions of hatred go back to at least the time of W.E.B. Du Bois, who once wrote, “It takes extraordinary training, gift and opportunity to make the average white man anything but an overbearing hog, but the most ordinary Negro is an instinctive gentleman.”
On another occasion he expressed himself in verse:
'I hate them, Oh!
I hate them well,
I hate them, Christ!
As I hate hell!
If I were God,
I’d sound their knell
This day!'
Such sentiments are still common. Amiri Baraka, originally known as LeRoi Jones, is one of America’s most famous and well-regarded black poets, but his work is brimming with anti-white vitriol. These lines are from “Black Dada Nihilismus:”
'Come up, black dada nihilismus.
Rape the white girls.
Rape their fathers.
Cut the mothers’ throats.'
Here are more of his lines:
'You cant steal nothin from a white man,
he’s already stole it he owes
you anything you want, even his life.
All the stores will open up if you
will say the magic words. The magic words are:
Up against the wall motherfucker this is a stick up!'
In “Leroy” he wrote: “When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people. May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings. And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone.” When he was asked by a white woman what white people could do to help the race problem, he replied, “You can help by dying. You are a cancer. You can help the world’s people with your death.”
In July, 2002, Mr. Baraka was appointed poet laureate of New Jersey.
The celebrated black author James Baldwin once said:
“[T]here is, I should think, no Negro living in America who has not felt, briefly or for long periods, . . . simple, naked and unanswerable hatred; who has not wanted to smash any white face he may encounter in a day, to violate, out of motives of the cruelest vengeance, their women, to break the bodies of all white people and bring them low.”
Toni Morrison is a highly-regarded black author who has won the Nobel Prize. “With very few exceptions,” she has written, “I feel that White people will betray me; that in the final analysis they’ll give me up.”
Author Randall Robinson concluded after years of activism that “in the autumn of my life, I am left regarding white people, before knowing them individually, with irreducible mistrust and dull dislike.” He wrote that it gave him pleasure when his dying father slapped a white nurse, telling her not “to put her white hands on him.”
Leonard Jeffries is the chairman of the African-American studies department of the City College of New York and is famous for his hatred of whites. Once in answer to the question, “What kind of world do you want to leave to your children?” he replied, “A world in which there aren’t any white people.”
Source: White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century
“If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy.”
“If people believe they can be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and they have no control over outside circumstances, those thoughts of fear, separation, and powerlessness, if persistent, can attract them to being in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
Source: The Secret
“If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.”
“If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.”
“If people bought only what they needed, the economy would crash. The world is sustained by people who are stupid enough to believe that buying more things will give them more happiness.”
“If people bring so much courage to this world that world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
Source: A Farewell to Arms
“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
Source: A Farewell to Arms
“If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.”
Source: The bowl of saki: Thoughts for daily contemplation from the sayings and teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan
“If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week!”
“If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.”
Source: Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography
“If people call you foolish, don't always assume you are. They may just be unable to comprehend the reasons for your actions, but if you yourself can't comprehend the reason for your own actions, then you really are just an idiot. - The Malwatch”
“If people call your work perceptible, be it in positive or negative terms, do ask them about what made them draw that conclusion.”