Quotes with appeal

  • When I'm on television, I think that I appeal to the everyday guy, 'cause that's who I am. The guys who go to the football games on the weekends are my viewers, for sure.
  • I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
  • Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
  • Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
  • I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
  • When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.
  • If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
  • Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
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  • Bertrand Russell Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Benjamin Franklin If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Jacques Barzun In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal.
    Jacques Barzun
    French-American historian (1907 - 2012)
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  • Barbara Corcoran A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Otto Von Bismarck An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • James Russell Lowell An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Barbara Castle And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Robert Browning Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Allen Tate But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Camille Paglia Campus speech codes, that folly of the navel-gazing left, have increased the appeal of the right. Ideas must confront ideas. When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Aldous Huxley Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. And not to Democrats alone do I make this appeal, but to all who love these great and true principles.
    Speech at Kalamazoo, Michigan, August 27
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Cass Sunstein Donald Trump promises to impose, soon after his inauguration, a new requirement on federal agencies: If they want to issue a new regulation, they have to rescind two regulations that are now on the books. The idea of 'one in, two out' has rhetorical appeal, but it's going to be extremely hard to pull off.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Albert Camus Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Helen Rowland Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Angelina Grimke I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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