John Rawls Quotes

If A were not allowed his better position, B would be even worse off than he is.

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• We approach closer and closer to socialism.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Approach
  • Socialism
  • Closer

• I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • War
  • Justice
  • Revolution

• I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Books

• My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Mother

• When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Boy
  • Writer
  • Little

• Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Movie
  • Black
  • Name

• They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Actor
  • Call
  • Maybe

• If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Good
  • New York
  • Run

• Hollywood constantly wants to label you and type you into a certain category, 'Oh he's a comedy guy,' or the weirdo character guy or the villain.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Character
  • Guy
  • Comedy

• During my first open ocean dive, I went down to 800 feet and turned out the lights. I knew I would see bioluminescence, but I was totally unprepared for how much. It was incredible! There were explosions of light everywhere, like being in the middle of a silent fireworks display.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Light
  • Ocean
  • Lights

• I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Knowledge
  • Community
  • Democracy

• I love having my daughter in the kitchen with me as I prepare meals. We talk about anything and everything!

  

  Camila Alves
  • Daughter
  • Talk
  • Prepare

• I don't try to impress people. Sometimes my jokes can be very harsh; I'm very sarcastic. I would joke about something disgusting, and my agent might be like, 'OK, maybe leave that behind for this one meeting. The burping? Maybe don't do that.'

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • People
  • Meeting
  • Sarcastic

• If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Me
  • Lying
  • Say

• Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Men
  • Country
  • May

• I can’t comment on Soundgarden because I know them personally and I really like them a lot, but I have strong feelings towards Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains and bands like that. They’re obviously just corporate puppets that are just trying to jump on the alternative bandwagon - and we are being lumped into that category.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Trying
  • Strong
  • Jump

• Music and silence... combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

  

  Marcel Marceau
  • Music
  • Done
  • Silence

• Only with these three kinds of creativity - technology, product planning, and marketing - can the public receive the benefit of a new technology.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Technology
  • Creativity
  • Planning

• Xerox did OK in moving to digital in the commercial space. They didn't do well in the consumer market, but they're not a consumer brand. They don't even know how to spell consumer.

  

  Antonio Perez
  • Space
  • Moving

• The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace. All the rest have been disposed of by judicial interpretation and legislative whittling.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Peace
  • Rest

• I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • May
  • Me
  • Crazy

• You can't staple me to the Brooklyn hipster. I don't buy skinny jeans and $50 T-shirts. I wear the same clothes I've always worn, from Target.

  

  Brian Fallon
  • Hipster

• It is not simply what one remembers, but why. There are sites of amputation where the past is severed from the body of the present. Remembering only encourages the growth of phantom limbs. And it is not simply what one remembers, or why, but what to do with what one remembers, which of the scattered pieces to carry forward, what to protect and preserve, what to leave behind.

  

  Camilla Gibb
  • To Do
  • Remembers
  • What

• If A were not allowed his better position, B would be even worse off than he is.

  

  John Rawls