Eugene V. Debs Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
-
When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
-
It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
-
As I've always said: The future lies ahead.
-
My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
-
I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.
-
The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
-
Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
-
I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
-
If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.
-
For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
-
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
-
Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had.
-
Every sitcom needs their straight man or straight woman.
-
I'm obsessed with brows, so Revlon's ColorStay Eyebrow Liner is a must, and the Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stain in Rendezvous is another obsession.
-
I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.
-
I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).
-
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
-
I don't want to slow down. It's my life. I love being on the road and giving concerts.
-
Rage is a powerful energy that with diligent practice can be transformed into fierce compassion. However much we disagree with our enemies, our task is to identify with them. They too feel justified in their point of view.
-
I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
-
The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.
-
As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry.
-
The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.
