John Rawls Quotes

The suppression of liberty is always likely to be irrational.

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• With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more attracted to.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Perfect
  • Better
  • Imperfection

• America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Work
  • America
  • Education

• The misperception about the South is that everybody is racist, and all black people are victims, that what was prevalent in the '60s is only relegated to the South.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Black
  • Everybody

• Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.

  

  Galen Weston
  • Business
  • Growing
  • Place

• I agree that the two-party system stomps on any kind of competition. A great first step is to open the presidential debates to all qualified candidates, including the Libertarians. If that happens, the Libertarian party will experience unprecedented growth.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Great
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  • Party

• I don't know, Y'know, I always wanted to be one of those cheerleader girls and I never was that, and I was never sort of cute and perky, and I always thought it was fun to be cute and perky, and those, I don't know what those girls are doing now.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Fun
  • Thought
  • Cute

• When I'm on family road trips, there is always Ranchera playing.

  

  Becky G
  • Family
  • Always
  • Road

• Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • May
  • Book
  • Society

• Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

  

  Ovid
  • Chance
  • Luck
  • Fish

• Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Short
  • Warrior
  • Pacifist

• I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • You
  • Know
  • Myself

• Once a year I will clean my room, just because I feel I should.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Feel
  • Year
  • Just Because

• Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Happiness
  • Animal
  • Equality

• Initially, I wanted to do films with A-list actors when I was struggling. I was hoping that I could also get that platform where I'm launched with Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan or Aamir Khan... and with them my career could also start, but it didn't happen. And then came 'Queen.'

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Career
  • Start
  • Queen

• Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal.

  

  Jack Zipes
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  • First
  • Good Deal

• All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.

  

  Victor Cousin
  • Men
  • True
  • Nature

• I allowed Rick Santorum to express views and ideas that the American people never would have had expressed.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • American
  • Ideas

• Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Experience
  • Wisdom
  • Beginning

• The ICRC did not see Nazi Germany for what it was. Instead, the organization maintained the illusion that the Third Reich was a 'regular partner,' a state that occasionally violates laws, not unlike any army during World War II, occasionally using illegal means and methods of warfare.

  

  Peter Maurer
  • World
  • War
  • Organization

• Loving him didn't fix anything. Loving him didn't change anything. Loving him simply made everything else bearable.

  

  P. C. Cast

• I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!

  

  Heather Matarazzo
  • Roles

• When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Goal
  • Obsessed
  • Seeks

• A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Spirit
  • Concentrated
  • Gamester

• The suppression of liberty is always likely to be irrational.

  

  John Rawls