Abraham Lincoln Quotes
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.Abraham Lincoln
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Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.
Tariq Ali -
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Just about the entirety of the first album, 'Brown Sugar,' I wrote it, the majority of that record in my bedroom in Richmond. And all of the demos for it were done on a four-track in my bedroom. I think EMI was a little leery of me being in the studio producing it on my own, which is what I was fighting for.
D'Angelo -
If I could kidnap Bryan Doyle-Murray and force him to be in my family, I would. I love him; I really do.
Valerie Azlynn -
One with the law is a majority.
Calvin Coolidge -
The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
Felix Dennis
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The yogi should meditate on a firm seat, one that is clean - untainted by dirt or unspiritual vibrations of others. The thought or life force emanating from an individual saturates the objects he uses and his dwelling.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.
Karel Reisz -
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund Burke -
Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.
Dalia Mogahed -
The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
Abba Eban -
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
J. Michael Straczynski
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The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
Garrett Hardin -
Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
P. J. O'Rourke -
One on God's side is a majority.
Wendell Phillips -
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Barbara De Angelis -
You must make sure that the majority of the people are not marginalized.
Najib Razak -
There's no substitute to actually being in the room and having people in the room feel the force of your audition. It's very hard to beat that.
Zach Galligan
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The force that unites the elements to become all things is Love, also called Aphrodite; Love brings together dissimilar elements into a unity, to become a composite thing. Love is the same force that human beings find at work in themselves whenever they feel joy, love and peace. Strife, on the other hand, is the force responsible for the dissolution of the one back into its many, the four elements of which it was composed.
Empedocles -
In human affairs we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged we keep in order, what has gone amiss we change and improve, what cannot be changed and improved we bear, overcoming all the trouble and sustaining all the good by prayer. Against force there is no help but prayer alone.
Martin Luther -
The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
F. Sionil Jose -
As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.
Alexander the Great -
As women and as lawyers, we must never again shy from raising our voices against sexual harassment.
Hillary Clinton -
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.
Abraham Lincoln