Quotes with right

Quotes 821 till 840 of 1234.

  • Gerda Lerner The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because it's the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained.
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  • Carroll Quigley The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie The art of the three-minute song is more like journalism than writing a big 400-page book. You want to be brief, you want to make sense right yen and there. And sometimes that takes a bit of work.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Bob Barr The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activity, such as would give a government agent the right to seize and peruse their iPad just because they are returning from a vacation.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Noam Chomsky The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Phillips Brooks The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Alistair Cooke The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Lord Quintin Hogg Hailsham The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
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  • Branford Marsalis The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Bernadette Peters The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Charles L. Allen The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.
    Charles L. Allen
    American ordained United Methodist minister (1913 - 2005)
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  • 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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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • John Ciardi The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
    John Ciardi
    American teacher, poet, writer (1916 - 1986)
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  • Lord Greville The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Emma Goldman The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Bobby Darin The Democratic Party of California is ready to sponsor me. All I have to do is find the right office to run for.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Angelina Grimke The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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