Joseph Sobran Quotes

Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.

Joseph Sobran

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• I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Potential
  • Ending

• Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Eyes

• I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Best
  • Dark
  • Theatre

• Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Balance
  • Makeup
  • Outfit

• A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Economy
  • Nation
  • Rights

• Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Bad
  • Thought
  • Poverty

• Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• President Trump's seeming renunciation of an anti-interventionist foreign policy is the great surprise of the first 100 days, and the most ominous. For any new war could vitiate the Trump mandate and consume his presidency.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Great
  • War
  • Trump

• I have to say, as a young woman of color, and this may sound controversial, in sci-fi, anything is possible. In sci-fi I can belong to the military. In sci-fi I can have an interracial love affair; I can be a revolutionary.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Woman
  • Military
  • Affair

• I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Music
  • Children
  • Art

• All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Men
  • Imagination

• There, take (says Justice), take ye each a shell: We thrive at Westminster on fools like you; 'T was a fat oyster,-live in peace,-adieu.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Live
  • Peace
  • Justice

• The pleasures of friendship, of unreserved conversation, of similarity of taste and opinions will make good amends for orange wine.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Good
  • Friendship
  • Wine

• The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

  

  Anais Nin

• You can't always worry about offending people.

  

  Mary Beard
  • People
  • Worry

• And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• I think 'Rather Be' is an amazingly written pop song with incredible production.

  

  Jess Glynne
  • Song

• It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how.

  

  Bobby Darin
  • Live
  • True
  • Die

• Der Tod ist die Möglichkeit der schlechthinnigen Daseinsunmöglichkeit.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Die

• Let us weep in our darkness, but weep not for him!Not for him who, departing, leaves millions in tears!Not for him who has died full of honor and years!Not for him who ascended Fame’s ladder so high:From the round at the top he has stepped to the sky.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • High
  • Honor
  • Sky

• The power of the human spirit inspires me. Movies, books, stories, people, anything that reminds us that we are more than just this physical body and our capacity for love and courage can bend reality.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Power
  • Courage
  • Spirit

• China rightly identified consumer Internet as important and moved to protect it, and we need to do the same in India.

  

  Bhavish Aggarwal
  • Important

• Every morning I shall concern myself anew about the boundary Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No And pressing forward honor reality.We cannot avoid Using power, Cannot escape the compulsion To afflict the world, So let us, cautious in diction And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.

  

  Martin Buber
  • World
  • Power
  • Reality

• Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.

  

  Joseph Sobran
  • Power
  • Democracy
  • Slaves