S Quotes
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“So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.”
Source: Social Statics, Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed
“So long as she lives forever, I'll always be home.”
Source: Cancer Perks
“So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.”
“So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“So long as space remains
So long as sentient beings'
Suffering remains
I will remain
In order to help,
In order to serve.”
Source: The Dalai Lama's Big Book of Happiness: How to Live in Freedom, Compassion, and Love
“So long as space remains, So long sentient beings' suffering remain, I will remain, In order to help, in order to serve... I am nothing but a servant to provide to others. So if you provide some happiness, some comfort to others, then your life becomes meaningful. If your life creates problems or suffering to others, then there's no meaning to your existence.”
“So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down politically to the level of those others disfranchised.”
“So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: 'GM is a failure'.”
“So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the flower emitting the buzzing sound; but when it is inside the flower, it noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas, he has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace.”
“So long as the child was fed on its mother's milk, everything seemed to it smooth and easy. But when it had to give up milk and take to vodka, - and this is the inevitable law of human development - the childish suckling dreams receded into the realm of the irretrievable past.”
Source: All Things are Possible
“So long as the Constitution is not amended beyond recognition, so long as elections are held regularly and fairly and the ethos of secularism broadly prevails, so long as citizens can speak and write in the language of their choosing, so long as there is an integrated market and a moderately efficient civil service and army, and — lest I forget — so long as Hindi films are watched and their songs sung, India will survive”
Source: India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
“So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.”
Source: Novels, 1930-1935
“So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.”
“So long as the great majority of the poor in any country are inert and are laboring without any hope in this world, the whole associated life of that community rests on an equivocal foundation. Its moral and social order is tied to an economic system which starves and mutilates the great majority of the population, and under such conditions its religion necessarily becomes a spiritual drug, administered for the purpose of subduing the popular discontent and relieving the popular misery.”
“So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.”
Source: Aaron Copland: A Reader : Selected Writings 1923-1972
“So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.”
Source: The Causes of Wars and Other Essays
“So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.”
Source: Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel
“So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but when his ambition is realized, the world will praise him for the persistence and the determination that he manifested during his dark hours, and everybody will point to his life as an example for coming generations. This is invariably the rule. Therefore pay no attention to what the world says when you are down. Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.”
Source: The Optimist Creed
“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”
“So long as the mental and moral instruction of man is left solely in the hands of hired servants of the public--let them be teachers of religion, professors of colleges, authors of books, or editors of journals or periodical publications, dependent upon their literary incomes for their daily bread, so long shall we hear but half the truth; and well if we hear so much. Our teachers, political, scientific, moral, or religious; our writers, grave or gay, are compelled to administer to our prejudices and to perpetuate our ignorance.”
“So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them.”
Source: Vivekananda Reader
“So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.”
“So long as the new moon returns in heaven a bent, beautiful bow, so long will the fascination of archery keep hold in the hearts of men.”
Source: The witchery of archery
“So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.”
Source: The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations
“So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.”
“So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.”
“So long as the precise letters of the law are more important than justice, there'll only be the illusion of order, but no justice.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“So long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whiskey.”
Source: W.C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography with Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Notes, Scripts, and Articles
“So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?”
“So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and a healing art was a logical development. The system of medicine, as we know it today, was a logical development out of the fallacy that healing power resides in extrinsic sources.”
“So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.”
Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume II: The Economist
“So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.”
“So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“So long as the stereotype is used as a way of understanding how to fix the problem as opposed to demonizing a people or writing them off, then I think it's OK.”
“So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.”
Source: The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris
“So long as the UK continues to maintain its own identity, it is my belief that the US and the UK should maintain close relations.”
“So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?”
“So long as the Universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the Universe is really completely self-contained, it would have neither beginning or end, it would simply be. What place then for a creator?”
“So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.”
“So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.”
Source: The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: Miscellany
“So long as there are forces of other countries in a place where they have no right to be, irrespective of our rights." (said this to the countries supporting Pakistan's aggression on Kashmir)”
“So long as there are men, there will be wars.”
“So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world.”
Source: Protector of the Small Quartet
“So long as there are poor, - I am poor, - So long as there are prisons, - I am a prisoner, - So long as there are sick, - I am weak, - So long as there is ignorance, - I must learn the truth, - So long as there is hate, - I must love, - So long as there is hunger, - I am famished. - Such is the identification Our Divine Lord would have us make with all whom He made in love and for love.”
“So long as there are still books on the shelves, you are never trapped. Every book is a potential escape.'
'I just don't understand life,' sulked Nora.
'You don't have to understand life. You just have to live it.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition
“So long as there is an Israeli occupation in Palestine and so long as U.S. policy is biased, the so-called terrorism that the United States fears will escalate because the mistakes of U.S. foreign policy are pouring oil on fire.”
“So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.”
Source: Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader
“So long as there is breath in me, I will persist.”
“So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.”