Max Lerner Quotes
Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.

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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.
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I act on my principles, whether they're popular or not.
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I am passionate about human rights.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
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Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
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A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.
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Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.
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To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
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I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.
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As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
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If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.
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If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.
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When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?'
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A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
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exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.
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That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data, it rarely captures anyone. Which then begs the question, why are we using this as a reference standard for human beings?
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Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. Think on paper and write them down!
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Where's Barack Obama when Christmas references are being erased from civic calendars? Is he crying out in defense of religious liberty and our First Amendment? Nope. He's as silent as a church mouse. And animosity toward religion continues to grow.
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Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.