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“Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.”

“Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.”

Powerful Consciousness Demand Manipulation Yield Aggression Avenues Very Powerful Madison Madison Avenue

Book:Letters of Marshall McLuhan

Source: Letters of Marshall McLuhan

“I have been accused of having believed when I wrote Sex and Temperament that there are no sex differences... This, many readers felt, was too much. It was too pretty. I must have found what I was looking for. But this misconception comes from a lack of understanding of what anthropology means, of the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder, that which one would not have been able to guess.”

Looks Has Beens Able Science Wonder Records Air Listening Demand Openness Anthropology Open Mindedness Astonishment

Author:Margaret Mead

“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”

War Humanity Peace Difficult Perfect Greater Sacrifice Demand Conscience Labor Purity Heroic Antiwar Heroism Fidelity Achieving Peace

Book:The Nonviolent Alternative

Source: The Nonviolent Alternative

“Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.”

Firsts Demand Perfection Perfectionist

Author:Joyce Meyer

“What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.”

Needs Years Wells Facts Lasts Business Demand Models Customers Educate Last Year Need You Cheaper

Author:Edna St. Vincent Millay

“I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don't think children expect their parents to be perfect. I think they demand that their parents be real.”

Thinking Believe Children Real I Believe Parent Perfect Demand Forgiving Being Real Being A Parent

Author:Beth Moore

“Our laws demand that a corporation have a fiduciary responsibility with shareholders to maximize profits. They are legally required to make as much money as possible, any way possible within 'the law.'”

Way Law Responsibility Demand Profit Corporations Shareholders Fiduciary

Author:Michael Moore

“There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.”

Source: America

“In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.”

Way Giving Persons Marriage Demand Patterns Partners Selfish Flexible Unselfish Unselfishness Giving Way

Book:A Severed Head

Source: A Severed Head

“I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.”

People Want War Young Asks Leader Sacrifice Citizens Demand Justification Glorify Hesitant

Author:Walter Dean Myers

“President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.”

People Government President Promise Demand Wraps Hype President Reagan

Author:Ralph Nader

“Love demands infinitely less than friendship.”

Love Friendship Hurt Relationship Demand Love And Friendship

Book:The world of George Jean Nathan

Source: The world of George Jean Nathan

“The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.”

Demand Inspirational Love Arrogant Presumption

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”

“My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie.”

Hard Work Watches Demand Girlfriend My Girlfriend Housework Funny Girlfriend

Author:Cynthia Nixon

“Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.”

Ifs Government Individual Responsibility Demand Commodity Vigilant Individual Freedom Individual Responsibility

Author:Lyn Nofziger

“Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.”

Ifs Kind Sex Pleasure Magic Movement Broken Demand Abandon Spells Caress Broken Promises Magic Words

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.”

States Grief Pieces Subjects Demand Extremes Complexity Altered Altered States

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.”

Thinking Way Needs Helping Government Responsibility Creativity Creative Century Demand Foundation Dollars Reform Efficient 21st Century Transparent Sense Of Responsibility

Author:Barack Obama

“The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.”

Want Lasts Economy Middle Demand Taxes Raises Holes Recessions

Author:Barack Obama

“Places like Hilton Head, with water adjacency and nice climates, are in high demand, and land values are insane. In the case of Hilton Head, which was developed in 1970 on what had been a mosquito- and alligator-infested swampy barrier island, land value has leaped from nearly zero to now unaffordable.”

Values Water Cases Nice Land Demand Climate Insane Islands Barriers Zero Mosquitoes Alligators

Author:Susan Orlean

“When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.”

Wealth Share Century Revolution Demand Creating Fairs Increase Workers Strikes Rapids Riot Nineteenth Century Industrial Revolution Fair Share Conceded

Author:John Boyd Orr

“Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.”

Humans Littles Human Beings Practice Society Demand Anger

Author:George Orwell

“Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.”

Demand Disease Arena Modeling Alcoholics Anorexia Bartender

Author:Carre Otis

“I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.”

Should Kind Children Care Law Wealth Race Groups Demand Claims Blind Prosperity Gender Protected Elderly Disabled Orientation Frailty

Author:Camille Paglia

“Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.”

Natural Levels Sea Demand Raises Humanitarian Disaster Rising Relief Severe Assistance Caps Melting Natural Disaster Draught Disaster Relief

Author:Leon Panetta

“It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of the vote in sufficient numbers, by combination, you can get out of any legislature whatever you want, or, if you cannot get it, you can send them about their business and choose other people who will be more attentive to your demands.”

People Ifs Want Mind Use Numbers Demand Vote Combination Sufficient Logical Evident Legislature

Author:Emmeline Pankhurst

“It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working.”

Feels Made Happened Demand Tired Spending Drivers Obeying Tired Of Working

Author:Rosa Parks

“All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.”

“For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.”

Values Citizens Demand Sake Discourse Free Market Advocacy Public Discourse

Author:Christine Pelosi

“It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.”

Done Roles Comedy Emotional Drama Demand Draining

Author:Sean Penn

“I'm not sure why no one wants to admit there's a viable audience out there that believes in God and wants to see a movie with their family. The demand is there. The supply is not.”

Want Believe Audience Demand Not Sure Believe In God

Author:Tyler Perry

“There's a huge demand for my entertainment, and I can't meet the need. So I decided to try a TV show to reach as many of my fans as possible.”

Needs Trying I Can Shows Fans Tvs Huge Demand Decided Entertainment Tv Shows

Author:Tyler Perry

“I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make.”

Huge Personality Demand Salary Compensation Dimes Annoyance

Author:Michelle Pfeiffer

“I do believe that oil production globally has peaked at 85 million barrels. And I've been very vocal about it. And what happens? The demand continues to rise. The only way you can possibly kill demand is with price. So the price of oil, gasoline, has to go up to kill the demand. Otherwise, keep the price down, the demand rises.”

Way Believe Happens Millions Demand Productions Oil Vocal Barrels Gasoline Oil Production

Author:T. Boone Pickens

“I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.”

Kind Player Months Demand Scripts Eight Principal

Author:Sidney Poitier

“The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.”

Should States Action Purpose Lost Loses United United States Security Mets Demand Resolution Regimes Council Doubted Legitimacy Security Council Peace And Security

Author:Colin Powell

“Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks.”

Care Today Quality Greater Higher Demand Standards Checks Treatment Flexibility Convenience Prevention Screening Higher Standards

Author:Lucy Powell

“Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?”

Important Age Order Taken Example Demand Important Things Definitions Defined Statistics Things In Life Metaphysics Decency Measurement

Book:Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual

Source: Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual

“People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.”

People Taken Demand Goodness Weakness Advantage Weak Good People Taken Advantage Weak People

Author:Dennis Prager

“Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.”

Men Reason Money Liberty Economic Talent Stupid Demand Weakness Sells Stupidity

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work - related far more directly to the demands of communication.”

Needs Artist Communication Demand Finished Drawing Related Canvas Statues Work Related

Book:Selected Essays of John Berger

Source: Selected Essays of John Berger

“Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.”

Way Soul Jesus Christ Powerful Christianity Influence Demand Comfortable Messages Jesus Christ Heroic Relentless Complacent John Paul Bonhoeffer Wilberforce

Author:Mitt Romney

“The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.”

Men Natural Demand Intellectual Vices Certainty Nevertheless Charlatans Absolute Certainty

Book:Bertrand Russell's Best

Source: Bertrand Russell's Best

“If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.”

Ifs Giving Happiness Success Joy Difficult Change Human Nature Circumstances Demand Adversity Bounds Inner Peace Looking For Happiness Difficult Circumstances

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“The work ahead will be hard. These times demand the best of us - all of us, but we can do this. Together, we can do this. We can get this country working again. We can get this economy growing again. We can make the safety net safe again. We can do this.”

Country Hard Together Can Do Economy Growing Safe Demand Safety Safety Net Together We Can

Author:Paul Ryan

“Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.”

Passion Demand Lust Kinky

Author:Marquis de Sade

“'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.”

Humans Has Beens Demand Judgement Penalties Abolition Judgemental Infallibility

Author:Marquis de Sade

“I repeat my demand that the occupier leave the land of our beloved Iraq unconditionally, without retaining bases or signing agreements.”

Land Demand Bases Iraq Beloved Repeats Agreement Signing Retaining

Author:Muqtada al Sadr

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