“I respect every mother and I believe people are entitled to use whatever benefits, claims and entitlements, if you like, that are available to them” PeopleIfsBelieveUseMotherI BelieveBenefitsClaimsAvailableEntitledEntitlement Author:Chris Bowen
“The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too, who appear to suffer from them. Their domination is expressed in that fact- that the people from whom they claim sacrifice accept them.” PeopleFactsSufferingViewsAcceptingMoralSacrificeBenefitsClaimsDominationPrevailing Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist
“Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind, as that though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body, or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.” MenMindWellsMayMadeSometimesBodyTogetherFoundDifferencesEqualBenefitsClaimsStrongerFacultyOne ManMind And BodyLeviathan Book:Leviathan Source: Leviathan
“Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay; and claims a halo for his dishonesty.” MenSocialPayAcceptingGroupsWillingBenefitsClaimsDoctrineDishonestyPacifismHalosSocial Groups Book:Double Star Source: Double Star
“Respecting the environment does not mean considering material or animal nature more important than man. Rather, it means not selfishly considering nature to be at the complete disposal of our own interests, for future generations also have the right to reap its benefits and to exhibit towards nature the same responsible freedom that we claim for ourselves. Nor must we overlook the poor, who are excluded in many cases from the goods of creation destined for all.” MenMeanDoeImportantInterestAnimalPoorCasesEnvironmentGenerationsCreationMaterialsBenefitsClaimsResponsibleEnvironmentalGoodsSustainabilityConsideringDestinedFuture GenerationReapExhibitsExcluded Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“The language of commerce has been engineered to describe the overt purpose of a thing, but cannot encompass fringe benefits or peripheral pleasures. It weighs the obvious against what in its terms are incomprehensible. When I drive from here to there, speed, privacy, control, and safety are easy to claim. When I walk, what happens is more vague, more ambiguous-and in many circumstances much richer. I am out in the world. It's exercise, though not so quantifiably as on a treadmill in a gym with a digital readout.” WorldHas BeensHappensPurposeLanguageEasyTermWalksPleasureCircumstancesExerciseBenefitsClaimsSafetyEnvironmentalObviousSpeedPrivacyDigitalGymSustainabilityCommerceVagueFringeAmbiguousTreadmills Author:Rebecca Solnit
“There are people in England that claim benefits because they are too nervous to work, so they claim their benefits for anxiety and never have to go out side there free home.” PeopleHomeSidesAnxietyBenefitsClaimsEnglandNervous Author:Joss Stone
“The reason we avoid the word 'synergy' is because people generally claim more synergistic benefits than will come. Yes, it exists, but there are so many false promises.Berkshire is full of synergies - we don't avoid synergies, just claims of synergies.” PeopleReasonPromiseBenefitsClaimsSynergyFalse Promises Author:Charlie Munger
“I don't claim to know a lot about Mexico, but I did talk to quite a number of left Mexican intelectuals, and they all said the same thing. That there's a lot of popular, kind of, concern and activism, but it is very fragmented. That the groups have very specific, narrow agendas and they don't interact and cooperate with one another. Ok, that's something you have to overcome to build a mass popular movement. And that's, media can help, but they also benefit from it.” KnowsKindSaidHelpingLeftNumbersGroupsMediaMovementBenefitsMassConcernOvercomingClaimsActivismAgendasMexicoMexicanFragmented Author:Noam Chomsky
“I faced a lot of criticism as president. I didn't like hearing people claim that I lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction or cut taxes to benefit the rich. But the suggestion that I was racist because of the response to Katrina represented an all-time low.” PeoplePresidentRichCuttingTaxesBenefitsWeaponsMassLowsCriticismDestructionClaimsResponseIraqHearingAll TimeRacistSuggestionsLiedWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionKatrinaAll Time Low Author:George W. Bush
“The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be a little boring.” ShouldLittlesEnoughOrderKindnessGeniusBenefitsShould HaveClaimsLaysBoxesBoringArchitectureGenerousArchitectAssembling Author:Alain de Botton
“If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.” IfsJobsBenefitsToughClaims Author:David Cameron
“The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit ... Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you, as you wish him to do ... He does not keep "protecting" you by commanding you to bow down and serve him; by requiring you to do this, and forbidding you to do that.” DoeUseWishResponsibilityLibertyTakenEconomicCrimeDangerBenefitsClaimsDown AndLibertarianBowsLibertarianismHighwaymen Author:Lysander Spooner
“What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual profits privatizing it. There was a principle at stake. They had to ensure their friends and not outsiders got the benefit.” NamesPrinciplesLandPoliticianBenefitsClaimsProfitLocalsStakesUsualOutsiders Author:Michael Moorcock