Frederick Douglass Quotes

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

Frederick Douglass

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• I get nervous before openings or premieres or when someone's reading a new script, and I get nervous when my daughter isn't in my immediate field of vision.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Reading
  • Vision
  • Daughter

• All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • May
  • Power
  • Nature

• We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Country
  • Power
  • Soul

• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Happiness

• I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Power

• I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Power
  • Strong
  • Connection

• The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Power
  • Never
  • Mysterious

• The fundamental vision hasn't changed. What does change is how you get there, because there are still problems you have to figure out.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Change
  • Vision
  • Problems

• Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • Future
  • Hair

• I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Evil

• Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Age
  • Community
  • Moral

• Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Single

• I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.

  

  Viktor Yanukovych
  • Power
  • Blood
  • Cost

• The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Want
  • Vision
  • Politics

• Not everybody's gonna get your vision.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Vision
  • Everybody
  • Your

• I really believe in the power of music.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Power

• If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Music

• Kids don't come with an instruction manual. So if you're gonna make mistakes, at least make them your own way.

  

  Steve Schirripa
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Mistake

• Michael Hogan is an absolutely brilliant actor, so anytime I get to work with someone of that caliber, I get excited.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Brilliant

• In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past, in those days when, as Bonnoure says, the letters wrote themselves one by one, either in their gibbosity or else in their pretentious elegance? In those days, spelling was a drama, our drama of culture at work in the interior of a word.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Past

• And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Earth
  • Sorrow
  • Grieving

• To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Power
  • Vision
  • Moral