John Yarmuth Quotes
Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.
Quotes to Explore
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Devout Anatolian masses rising from poverty have transformed Turkey politically and economically.
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These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
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The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
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Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
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When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.
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My whole drive is to make sure that music is a common space where we search for beauty and share it. It needs to be louder than any conversation. That's where we have to go as a human race.
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I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.
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If I wrote in Michael Harrington's time, roughly 50 years later when he published 'The Other America', I'd still be writing about poverty and also entrenched racial injustice.
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Ma: You're gonna love it.Jack: What?Ma: The world.
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There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.
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I had a dad you know.
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If you worry, you are a worrier because your mind is saturated with worry thoughts. To counteract these, mark every passage in your Bible that speaks of faith, hope, and courage.
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Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.
