Quotes with claim

Quotes 41 till 60 of 64.

  • Benjamin Tucker The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Alva Myrdal The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Bob Beauprez The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Milan Kundera The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.
    De ondraaglijke lichtheid van het bestaan (1984)
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Camille Paglia The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men but rather their conqueror, an outlaw who controls the sexual channel between nature and culture.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Kurt Vonnegut The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Patricia Meyer Spacks The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Sir Alfred Jules Ayer There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.
    Sir Alfred Jules Ayer
    English philosopher (1910 - 1989)
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  • Jim Morrison They claim everyone was born, but I don't recall it. Maybe I was having one of my blackouts.
    Jim Morrison
    American singer, poet and songwriter (1943 - 1971)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Robert Runcie Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.
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  • Bernard Crick To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 2, A Defence Of Politics Against Ideology, p.
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • B. F. Skinner To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Bob Dylan Up on Housing Project Hill, it's either fortune or fame. You must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Kofi Annan Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development and peace.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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