W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?”
“Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from their homes so that Jews from Brooklyn can live in them?”
“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.”
“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?”
“Why should things be easy to understand?”
“Why should thinkers mock the simple pieties of the people?”
Source: Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy
“Why should this happen to me when I planned and worked… and came so far?”
Source: The Legend of the Seventh Virgin
“Why should this war in the West be fought for the restoration of Poland? The Poland of the Versailles Treaty will never rise again.”
“Why should today be different? (Tevye)”
“Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money.”
Source: If You Want to Write
“Why should we assume everything as we imagine it, as we make up our minds to imagine it? A thousand things may happen in reality which elude the subtlest imagination.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“Why should we be arguing for our own rights(LGBTQ) in the first place?”
Source: Queeristan: LGBTQ Inclusion in the Indian Workplace
“why should we be ashamed for a decision we made after spending a long time to think on it, when we're not ashamed of our bad deeds we created ourselves?”
“Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.”
Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Why should we be letting people smoke their cigars in their comfortable chairs in Raqqa?”
“Why should we be receptive to the ups and downs of multiple adoption stories? When we allow the elite 1% to speak for us, they will share from their perspective, and naturally, this point of view is tainted with doing whatever is possible to protect their reputation. In other words, I've learned that what pro-adoption lobbyists claim to be "in the best interest of the child" is truly not always in the best interest of the child.”
Source: Adoption Stories
“Why should we be surprised to find a fleeting fame built upon the most ephemeral of creations?”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“Why should we be willing to go by faith? We do all things in this world by faith in the word of others. By faith only we know our position in the world, our circumstances, our rights and privileges, our fortunes, our parents, our brothers and sisters, our age, our mortality. Why should Religion be an exception?”
“Why should we believe in a god, that doesnt believe in us?”
“Why should we believe in God? — We hate Christianity and Christians. Even the best of them must be regarded as our worst enemies. They preach love of one's neighbor, and pity, which is contrary to our principles. Christian love is a hinderance to the revolution. Down with love of one's neighbor; what we want is hatred.”
“Why should we believe people who constantly try to push these trade agreements and won't even admit when one has gone wrong? It makes working people feel like the process is rigged. The reason is, it is rigged.”
“Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves, But never for us so hearty.”
“Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?”
Source: The Social Contract ; And, The Discourses
“Why should we care about the coup? First, because we depend on Yemen's government to support our drone war against another local menace, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). It's not clear if we can even maintain our embassy in Yemen, let alone conduct operations against AQAP. And second, because growing Iranian hegemony is a mortal threat to our allies and interests in the entire Middle East.”
“Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?”
Source: Letters of Emily Dickinson
“Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.”
“Why should we change that which makes us unique?”
Source: A Writer's Year: Fennel's Journal No. 3
“Why should we defend ourselves when we are misunderstood and misjudged? Let us leave that aside. Let us not say anything. It is so sweet to let others judge us in any way they like. O blessed silence, which gives so much peace to the soul!”
“Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to destroy passions, but to make them obedient to the intellect. To indulge passion to the utmost is one form of intemperance - to destroy passion is another. The reasonable gratification of passion under the domination of the intellect is true wisdom and perfect virtue.”
Source: Reason, Tolerance, and Christianity: The Ingersoll Debates
“Why should we ever continue anything if the first parts are the best?”
“Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?”
“Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh.”
Source: The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays Throughout the Year
“Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?”
Source: The Annotated Emerson
“Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?”
Source: Meditations: A New Translation
“why should we feel guilty about something that brings us- pleasure?”
Source: Today Tonight Tomorrow
“Why should we feel sad when the Hindu brothers choose to leave our country? Do we mourn when we have indigestion and materials leave our bodies?”
“Why should we girls not have the same privileges as men? Why do we police ourselves so stringently- whittling each other down with cutting remarks or holding ourselves back from greatness with a harness woven of fear and shame and longing? If we do not deem ourselves worthy first, how shall we ever ask for more?”
Source: The Gemma Doyle Trilogy
“Why should we give God thanks? Because everything we have comes from God.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Why should we hate or trash someone because of his or her faith? After all, religion, regardless of how it is practiced or who is practicing it, is supposed to be a good thing, right? Religion can just as easily be used as a force for evil rather than a force for good. Since we know this to be true, doesn’t this present us with opportunity? Shouldn’t we seize the moment to be more tolerant of each other’s beliefs, so hatred is not victorious in this moral battle?”
Source: Betrayal of Justice
“Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.”
“Why should we isolate people who are brave enough to try to become like us--who want to help people? Why should we treat them as if they're less than us, until they prove their worthiness or die? I won't do it.”
Source: Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
“Why should we labor this unpleasant point? Because the Book of Mormon labors it, for our special benefit. Wealth is a jealous master who will not be served halfheartedly and will suffer no rival--not even God: "Ye cannot serve God and Mammon." (Matthew 6:24) In return for unquestioning obedience wealth promises security, power, position, and honors, in fact anything in this world. Above all, the Nephites like the Romans saw in it a mark of superiority and would do anything to get hold of it, for to them "money answereth all things." (Ecclesiastes 10:19) "Ye do always remember your riches," cried Samuel the Lamanite, ". . .unto great swelling, envyings, strifes, malice, persecutions, and murders, and all manner of iniquities." (Helaman 13:22) Along with this, of course, everyone dresses in the height of fashion, the main point being always that the proper clothes are expensive--the expression "costly apparel" occurs 14 times in the Book of Mormon. The more important wealth is, the less important it is how one gets it.”
Source: Since Cumorah
“Why should we live halfway up the hill and swathed in the mists, when we might have an unclouded sky and a radiant sun over our heads if we would climb higher and walk in the light of His face?”
“Why should we make love?” If the husband is honest, he will answer with something to the effect that making love relieves his sexual craving. But the answer of most wives is very different. She will say that sex helps her feel closer to her husband. For her, it is all about intimacy and emotional bonding.”
Source: His Needs, Her Needs: Building an Affair-Proof Marriage
“Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.”
Source: Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings
“Why should we not ... instead of the paltry offerings we make, do something that will prove that we are really in earnest in claiming to be followers of him who, though he was rich, for our sake became poor?”
Source: Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings
“Why should we not enter into our inheritance in the church as well as the concert hall?”
“Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?”
“Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible.”
“Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?”