Quotes with appeals

  • The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
  • The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

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  • C. P. Snow Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.
    Speaking in a debate broadcast by the BBC in 1936
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • George Macaulay Trevelyan Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.
    George Macaulay Trevelyan
    British historian and academic (1876 - 1962)
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  • Truman Capote Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • Gertrude Stein I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Aaron Eckhart I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
    Aaron Eckhart
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Anthony Holden I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Andy Rooney It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Albert Bandura Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.
    Albert Bandura
    Canadian-American psychologist (1925 - )
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Walter Lippmann The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Harold Rosenberg The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
    Harold Rosenberg
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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  • Jules Renard Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • Cyril Connolly We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • William James As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Andre Breton No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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