Powers Boothe Quotes
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
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If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.
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Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.
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Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
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There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
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Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.
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Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
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I know a lot of people who transitioned and dropped out of society for two years. They don't talk to anybody. They become hermits. They try to do everything alone.
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Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.
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A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they do about their or their company's bottom line.
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Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
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I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.
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Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he, who is cruel to living creatures, cannot be a good man. Moreover, this compassion manifestly flows from the same source whence arise the virtues of justice and loving-kindness towards men.
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I don't know why in society when a woman demands perfection she is called crazy.
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I don't have many easy songs.
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Much as you would like, you are not going to change people who feel it's part of their religious commitment to 'save' you.
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The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did.
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If there is anything I am about, it is I want justice in society.
