Ignazio Silone Quotes
The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.Ignazio Silone
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If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
Rafael dos Anjos -
If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.
Samantha Smith -
A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.
Edmund Barton -
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
H. L. Mencken -
When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. … No man lives who has not got a panic button, and when it is pressed by the clean white hand of moral duty, a certain murderous train is set in motion.
Arthur Miller -
You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.
Bob Feller
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The only way to gain the kinds of often-generational wealth that the 1% has been able to gain is through controlling the populations it relied on to make its wealth.
Patrisse Cullors -
My desk is more of a place where I set my stuff, and then I move around. If I'm at the office, I'm usually wandering around to different meeting rooms all day or taking people out or making tea. I'm rarely at my desk; it's just a place to hang my hat.
Emily Weiss -
Australia is my lens. I cannot see the world any other way.
Peter Carey -
I think I was a bit naive when I was younger. I don't know what it was: I sort of felt tunnel vision - I didn't really have peripheral vision or see the world and what was happening. I'm much more worldly, and I believe that I'm much more grounded in my body than I probably was when I was younger.
Jenna Dewan -
I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.
Annette Funicello -
Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times a week, not without feeling underneath it, but it's not as churning as the discovery process was.
Linda Lavin
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I don't want to become a star. I never wished to become an actor, even when I am here. When you decide to become an actor, you've to choose why you're doing it. Are you doing it to become an actor or because you want to be famous? I am doing it because I love being in front of the camera.
Disha Patani -
The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is recognised, but only when it has been confirmed by the results of the experiment.
Dmitri Mendeleev -
I think that what people want from cable news channels is the sense that if there's hard news, it's going to come up immediately.
Brit Hume -
If you don't change with the times, the times are going to change you.
Marv Levy -
Never before in history has the global marketplace touched so many consumers and provided access to so many producers.
Peter Diamandis -
Evil can kill a person, but never conquer a nation.
Jens Stoltenberg
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I found that gloss paint suited me entirely, and its qualities still intrigue me. It's viscous and fluid and feels like a pool. It's highly reflective, which means there are layers of looking. You look at the picture, and you look at the surface, then you look at the reflection in the surface behind you, then you look at yourself.
Gary Hume -
Victoria Roberts spins an exciting Highland tale of intrigue, betrayal, and love with a braw Highland hero and strong English heroine any reader will love.
Hannah Howell -
Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?
Evelyn Waugh -
The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.
Ignazio Silone