I Quotes
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“In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.”
“In a composite Nation like ours, made up of almost every variety of the human family, there should be, as before the Law, no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no black, no white, but one country, one citizenship equal rights and a common destiny for all.
A government that cannot or does not protect the humblest citizen in his right to life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, should be reformed or overthrown, without delay.”
“In a comprehensive study of all public multiple shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, economists John Lott and Bill Landes found that the only public policy that reduced both the incidence and casualties of such shootings were concealed-carry laws. Not only are there 60 percent fewer gun massacres after states adopt concealed-carry laws, but the death and injury rate of such rampages are reduced by 80 percent.”
“In a concurrent world, imperative is the wrong default!”
“In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed.”
“In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“In a conflict doesn't win who has more weapons but who knows best use for them”
Source: Zori 2ª Parte
“In a conflict of loyalty, obey Jesus at all costs.”
Source: So Send I You / Workmen Of God: Recognizing and Answering God's Call to Service
“In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.”
“In a Consciously Conscious Revolutionary Workplace, its People First, Planet Second and then Profits.”
“In a Consciously Conscious Revolutionary Workplace, people are promoted based upon skillset, AND more importantly MINDSET”
“In a Consciously Constructive Revolutionary Workplace, Happiness fuels
Higher Performance, which creates Greater Happiness, which again fuels higher performance.”
“In a Consciously Constructive Revolutionary Workplace, the focus is on stakeholders, People, Planet AND profits, not just the shareholder's greed of more profits.”
“In a conservative courtly culture an artist of his (Rembrandt's) kind would perhaps never made a name for himself at all, but, once recognized, he would probably have been able to hold his own better than in liberal middle-class Holland, where he was allowed to develop in freedom, but which broke him when he refused to submit any longer. The spiritual existence of the artist is always in danger; neither an authoritarian nor a liberal order of society is entirely free from peril for him; the one gives him less freedom, the other less security. There are artists who feel safe only when they are free, but there are also such as can breathe freely only when they are secure. The seventeenth century was, at any rate, one of the period furthest removed from the ideal of synthesis of freedom and security.”
Source: The Social History of Art: Volume 2: Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque
“In a conservative old town, say something new and be prepared for the stones!”
“In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.”
Source: The Tempting of America
“in a constitutionally ordered state, where laws are derived from broad principles of right and wrong and where those principles are enshrined and protected by agreed upon procedures and practices, it can never be in the long-term interest of the state or its citizens to flout those procedures at home or associate too closely overseas with the enemies of your founding ideals.”
Source: Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
“In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.”
“In a consumer society, expectations dare not plateau, because a growing economy depends on rising expectations... The more we let our level of contentment be determined by outside factors-a new car, fashionable clothes, a prestigious career, social status-the more we relinquish control over our own happiness.”
“In a consumer society, people wallow in things, fascinating, enjoyable things. If you define your value by the things you acquire and surround yourself with, being excluded is humiliating.”
“In a contagious world,we learn to keep our distance. If we get too close to those who are suffering, we might get infected by their pain. It may not be convenient or comfortable. But only when you get close enough to catch their hurt will they be close enough to catch your love.”
Source: Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart
“In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.”
“In a contest between new technology and old ways of life, it is the traditional rhythms that will hold. Traditional societies make up more than two-thirds of the world, the two-thirds that will not be going online to "save" time but will remain wedded to the knowledge that if the bus doesn't come that day, it will come someday. After all, there is nothing but time.”
“In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.”
“In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. This is a helpful pointer for our everyday presence-practice. Can you catch yourself angrily defending your point of view or attacking the other person's? There's the ego.”
“In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.”
“In a conversation involving the tongue and the face, listen to the face. It is the visible spectrum of the heart and mind.”
“In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.”
“In a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don't know what to say, I get very anxious.”
“In a cookie factory, different cookies are baked in the shape of animals, cars, people, and airplanes. They all have different names and forms, but they are all made from the same dough, and they all taste the same.”
Source: Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn
“In a cool medium, the audience is an active constituent of the viewing or listening experience. A girl wearing open-mesh silk stockings or glasses is inherently cool and sensual because the eye acts as a surrogate hand in filling in the low-definition image thus engendered. Which is why boys make passes at girls who wear glasses.”
“In a cool solitude of trees
Where leaves and birds a music spin,
Mind that was weary is at ease,
New rhythms in the soul begin.
- In a Cool Solitude of Trees”
Source: The Cats of Rome: New and Selected Poems
“In a cool solitude of trees Where leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at ease, New rhythms in the soul begin.”
Source: Collected Poems
“In a cornball way, I think being a celebrity is about making a difference, too.”
“In a corner of her heart she imagined her compassion as kindling that could ignite not only her tender and guarded feelings for her mother, but also jump across the void and ignite her mother’s feelings for her.”
Source: House Broken
“In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something wild.”
Source: The Army of Five Men
“In a corner of the churchyard grew a plantation of white violets, enormously plump and prosperous-looking. ... I saw the dead stretched out under me in the earth, feeding these flowers with a thin milk drawn from their bones.”
Source: The ballad and the source
“In a corner you condense yourself and cry- in the same corner you caress and kiss. Life is this, something different each time.”
“In a corporate context, companies have to try very hard to oppose the enticements of conventional wisdom. They must aim for the leaps, which means that companies have to do more than simply manage their knowledge, which is composed of the insights and understandings they already know. They also have to manage the knowledge-generation process. It's not just about, "Oh, we're going to create a data warehouse and we are going to invent a computerized filing system to get at all the stuff we know."”
“In a corporation, there can only be one guy in the end: the CEO.”
“In a correction, other people's stocks go down, in a bear market, your stocks go down.”
“In a corrupt society, the loyal are stupid and ignorant.”
“In a corrupt society, you can’t go back to make your own perfect world.”
“In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.”
“In a country addicted to the virus of consumption, wealth, individualism, and judgement — be a person who is committed to the act of serving with love. To the act of spreading love. To serving with love. To uplifting with love. United we stand, divided we fall. Choose your part. Choose leadership. Be a leader, not a follower. You were born an original. Don’t die a copy. Freedom ain’t free and that just so happens to be the problem and the answer to the solution. All men are created equal but not treated equal. The only thing that is free is love, and love with conditions is not love. Liberty and life with conditions is not liberty and life. Ask more of your country and your countrymen. Protect all American’s rights to true freedom. Not the declaration of freedom but the actualization of freedom, which includes true liberty, true equality and the unconditional ability to pursue the highest virtues of life.”
“In a country as large and diverse as America, compromise is how we get things done. It isn't always pretty, but we have to find solutions to our problems that, at the end of the day, most people can live with.”
“In a country governed by religious rules, there can be no talk of freedom, and in a country where there is no talk of freedom, there can never be talk of human dignity!”
“In a country lacking leaders, in Africa, for instance, how could a native educated in Europe refuse to become a professor, even at the price of his literary vocation?”
“In a country like America, there are places, many states here still where coming out means you lose your job, where coming out means division, where it means potentially abuse.”
“In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?”