Best land & reason Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Thorstein Veblen, R.H. Tawney, John Maynard Keynes

“I'm a storyteller and the Bible is a bunch of stories about life and things that took place here on planet earth. It's a great example to use and a great reason to be happy about being a storyteller because the lessons of the land are always in stories.”

Reason Stories Use Earth Land Example Planets Lessons Bunch Storyteller Planet Earth Reasons To Be Happy

Author:Nas

“I contend that the continued racial classification of Homo sapiens represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a species. In other words, I reject a racial classification of humans for the same reasons that I prefer not to divide into subspecies the prodigiously variable West Indian land snails that form the subject of my own research.”

Humans Reason Problem Form My Own Land Subjects Approach Research West Species Indian Rejects Divides Homo Sapiens Variables Classification Snail Differentiation

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“The American farmer, whose holdings were not so extensive as those of the grandee nor so tiny as those of the peasant, whose psychology was Protestant and bourgeois, and whose politics were petty-capitalist rather than traditionalist, had no reason to share the social outlook of the rural classes of Europe. In Europe land was limited and dear, while labor was abundant and relatively cheap; in America the ratio between land and labor was inverted.”

Reason America Social Class Psychology Share Land Europe Labor Dear Tiny No Reason Farmers Capitalist Outlook Petty Peasants Bourgeois Protestants Ratios Inverted

Author:Richard Hofstadter

“Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land And how a child to the virgin came? Will you tell them that the reason why we murdered Everything upon the surface of the world Is so we can stand right up and say we did it in his name?”

World Children Reason Names Land Surface Reason Why Virgins

Author:Andy Partridge

“When I was doing just the underwater, I don't think people could relate to it at first. Then I added the land, which was a painting called, Two Worlds. For some reason that particular painting gave people something to hold onto.”

People Thinking World Firsts Two Reason Land Particular Painting Relate Two Worlds Underwater

Author:Robert Lyn Nelson

“Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people forbade themselves any display of reason or compassion. A city or a land was devoted to destruction and it was believed an insult to God if one did not observe the abominable oath.”

People Ifs Humans Made Reason Form Cities Compassion Atheism Land Destruction Positive Atheism Cruelty Insult Display Devoted Deities Solemn Oath Pact Human Cruelty

Author:Ernest Renan

“The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet and the funky; they must vote, manipulate, control, and direct, these Protestants who are the center of power in our land, they must go for what they believe is reason when it is only the Square logic of the past.”

Believe Reason Past Sex White Land Creation Sweet Birth Direct Logic Vote Ultimate Flesh Heat Squares Committees Manipulate Protestants Protestantism Funky

Author:Norman Mailer

“Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating from Columbia and teaching for a decade at Yale.He brings the gory details. Two, the author is a striker, to put it in soccer terms. He's a vivid writer, a literary critic whose headers tend to land in the back corner of the net. Three, his indictment arrives on wheels: He takes aim at just about the entirety of upper-middle-class life in America.Mr. Deresiewicz's book is packed full of what he wants more of in American life: passionate weirdness.”

“A vote for change is a vote for a stronger, safer, healthier America. A vote for Bush is a vote for a divided, unstable, paranoid America. It is our duty to this beautiful land to let our voices be heard. That's the reason for the tour. That's why I'm doing it.”

Reason America Beautiful Voice Heard Land Duty Vote Stronger Divided Paranoid Unstable Beautiful Land

Author:Dave Matthews

“What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.”

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“Sometimes when I talk to little children I remind them of the fact that when I was growing up myself, I used to play with frog eggs and tadpoles and I used to walk in the field, I used to literally copy whatever my mother was doing on the land. And that may be the reason why I eventually developed the passion for green and for the Earth. So it is extremely important for adults and especially those who are in charge of cities to make sure that we do not lose touch with the land and with the environment. And especially our children.”

“I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash now:... [ellipsis in source] take all the regulations away; weaken existing legislation; the endangered species act is too severe, too restrictive; let there be carte blanche for real-estate developers. Because if we really have to confront wildness, solitude, and serenity, both the fierceness and compassionate nature of the land, then we ultimately have to confront it in ourselves, and it's easier to be numb, to be distracted, to be disengaged.”

“Why is Netanyahu pushing war? Among several reasons, demonizing Iran reduces pressure on Israel to negotiate seriously with the Palestinians. Many Israelis prefer building Jewish settlements on Palestinians' land instead. Moreover, Israel's rulers oppose any development-such as an Iranian-U.S. detente-that could diminish Israel's U.S.-financed hegemony in the region. War with Iran would be a catastrophe all around. Netanyahu and his hawkish American allies-the same people who gave us the disastrous Iraq war and ISIS-must be repudiated.”

“The first thing I can remember I ever wanted was to go to the United States. And for reasons that are as conventional as you can imagine: I wanted to know if it was really true that it was the land of opportunity, of democracy, and individual liberty.”

Source: Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

“Now it must be asked if we can comprehend why comets signify the death of magnates and coming wars, for writers of philosophy say so. The reason is not apparent, since vapor no more rises in a land where a pauper lives than where a rich man resides, whether he be king or someone else. Furthermore, it is evident that a comet has a natural cause not dependent on anything else; so it seems that it has no relation to someone's death or to war. For if it be said that it does relate to war or someone's death, either it does so as a cause or effect or sign. De Cometis”

Ifs Men Doe Said War Reason Philosophy Seems Causes Natural Rich Land Effects Kings Relation Relate Dependent Evident Rich Man Comets Vapor

Author:Albertus Magnus

“The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners'.”

Reason Body Order Speak Voice Known Land Demand Suits Manners Germany Bathing Bathing Suits

Book:Holidays in Hell

Source: Holidays in Hell

“When we conduct agriculture, we are, therefore, altering the ecological arrangement that was responsible for our genesis as a species. I think that this is the reason that this alienation has allowed us to see and regard land mostly as a resource. So we have created a problem for ourselves from the word "go," for land is not a resource any more than humans are resources.”

Thinking Humans Reason Problem Land Resources Responsible Regard Species Environmental Sustainability Agriculture Arrangements Alienation Genesis Ecological

Author:Wes Jackson

“The reason why Absurdist plays take place in No Man's Land with only two characters is primarily financial.”

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Author:Arthur Adamov

“My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon. So long as they occupy and cultivate it, they have a right to the soil. Nothing can be sold but such things as can be carried away”

Children Long Reason Spirit Teach Land Soil Native Native American Carried Away Great Spirit

Author:Black Hawk

“Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti.”

World Has Beens Stills Reason Government Nations Land Security Military Tiny Friendly Civilized Republic Denied Airplane Permission Warships Developed Nations

Author:Thor Heyerdahl

“Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature”

Source: Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

“It is always possible that society you live in might go backwards, towards the land of ignorance and darkness! While this tragedy and stupidity happening, you must move forward! You must walk forward, towards the light and wisdom, to the land of reason!”

Reason Light Might Moving Walks Darkness Land Ignorance Happenings Tragedy Stupidity Moving Forward Backwards

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“When everbody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!”

Reason Lying Religious Land Worship Dare Myth Illogical

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“There is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land.”

People Years Ends Reason Numbers Five Land Huge Horror Six Majors Evidence Very Good Syria Drought Huge Numbers

Author:Prince Charles

“We can be deeply thankful that we live in a land where reason and religion are friends and allies in the cause of liberty, joined against the evils and dangers of the day. And you can be certain of this: Any believer in religious freedom, any person who has knelt in prayer to the Almighty, has a friend and ally in me. And so it is for hundreds of millions of our countrymen: we do not insist on a single strain of religion - rather, we welcome our nation's symphony of faith.”

Persons Reason Certain Evil Nations Causes Religious Prayer Liberty Millions Land Danger Believer Welcome Allies Almighty Strain Symphony Religious Freedom Countrymen

Author:Mitt Romney

“Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.”

“There are compelling reasons to implement a true America First immigration plan, starting with border security. We are a land of immigrants. Immigration, with assimilation, has generally been good for America.”

Firsts Reason America Plans Land Security Starting Immigration Borders Immigrants Compelling Assimilation Border Security Compelling Reason

Author:Niger Innis

“I tend to land roles that are somewhat villainous for some reason. Usually, people blame it on the accent.”

People Reason Roles Land Blame Accents

Author:India de Beaufort

“The covenant between Jews and God was conditional on their respect for human rights. The reason they were expelled from the land was that they were more interested in money and power and treated the poor and aliens with contempt.”

Humans Reason Poor Rights Land Human Rights Jew Treated Aliens Contempt Covenant Money And Power Conditional

Author:Stephen Sizer

“I think for some reason people are drawn to stories of all kinds, for some reason they land harder when they are "true." And yet in fiction, I think there is a lot of deeper truth, too.”

People Thinking Kind Reason Stories Fiction Land Harder Deeper All Kinds

Author:T Cooper

“Land Grant College Act is the jewel of Republican reform. It had not occurred to any other country to educate their farmers and workers. When the British studied the reasons for American success in 1851, the consensus was that Americans workers were well educated. So they didn't oppose progress the way British workers did.”

Way Wells Country Reason Progress Land College Republican Workers British Educated Reform Grants Farmers Educate Other Countries Jewels Consensus Well Educated American Success

Author:Charles R. Morris

“During that time period all of our tribes were suffering extremely from poverty and neglect. And the reason I say neglect is because the U.S. Government was neglecting its true responsibilities they agreed to in exchange for our land and resources. What I and others attempted to do, and in essence we did, was bring attention to our sovereign rights, the rights we had retained when the treaties were made.”

Made Reason Government Suffering Attention Responsibility Poverty Rights Land Periods Resources Essence Neglect Sovereign Tribes Treaties Time Periods

Author:Leonard Peltier

“The war on drugs causes other supplemental crimes to take place because of the original illegality of it. But then again, that's the other reason that they're fighting it is the corporate prisons they have now. Because they've privatized all our prisons, corporations have to make money, and the only way they can make money is, I believe, the prisons have to be at least 80-90 percent full. That's why the United States - which is home of the brave, land of the free - we have more people in prison than any other country in the world.”

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