Eugene V. Debs Quotes

The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.

Eugene V. Debs

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• There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Church
  • Social
  • Ethical

• I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.

  

  T-Pain
  • People
  • Know
  • I Can

• I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'

  

  Parker Posey
  • Like

• Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Great
  • Home

• I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • American
  • Environment
  • Environmental

• I'm not going to freeze under the pressure. I'm hoping I can stand up to it.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Up
  • Pressure
  • Stand

• Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Up
  • Work
  • Language

• The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • South
  • Backbone

• Polka dots are fabulous.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Fabulous
  • Dots

• I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Done
  • American
  • America

• The stammerer is ambivalent about communicating with others-he desperately wants to communicate, but is afraid of revealing himself.

  

  Ted Morgan
  • Wants
  • Communicating
  • Revealing

• I was absolutely never going to get pregnant. I never felt that it was the right thing to do. Now I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. It taught me a lot about life, just the process of it, and now we have three other beautiful children that wouldn't otherwise be here.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • World
  • Children

• I cannot say something different to one person and then another.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Different
  • Persons

• People are already talking about the next presidential election. There's stories all over about who might run. At a recent speech, a prominent Democrat said that Hillary Clinton should not run because she can't win. Immediately after the speech, Hillary told her husband to shut up.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Never
  • Economic
  • Been

• These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny. In the black community, centuries of government and economic forces were pushing on them. I went in with a kind of arrogance, maybe, that came from living in a very intellectual family, and I left knowing that there was a lot about the way people lived that I didn't know about.

  

  Sara Paretsky
  • People
  • Community
  • Destiny

• One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Nice
  • Enough
  • Grace

• Look at all the women in my stories. They’re very independent; they create their own universes; they are very unorthodox. They aren’t held down by rules and regulations.

  

  Estela Portillo Trambley
  • Women
  • Independent
  • Rules

• The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Economic
  • Ruling Class