Quotes 1581 till 1600 of 11281.
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But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.
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But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators, the instruments, not the guides of the people.
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) -
But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
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But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.
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But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.
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But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) ch. 24 -
But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.
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Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.
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Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.
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By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
By 2002, I realized that what was classically called a rollup strategy was not generally effective, at least not for me.
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By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
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By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.
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By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in serving the student body are less likely to respond favorably to criticism, and are more likely to feel the freedom to intimidate or harass those with opposing viewpoints.
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By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again - and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.
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