Eugene V. Debs Quotes

A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.

Eugene V. Debs

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• I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Work
  • Game
  • Training

• I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Want
  • Me
  • Running

• Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Honest
  • Seek
  • Number

• Happiness is an inside job.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Job
  • Happiness
  • Inside

• Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • People
  • Great
  • Always

• Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Sports
  • Boxing
  • Few

• I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Stop
  • Start
  • Week

• I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Holidays

• I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Hate

• Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Technology

• Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Different
  • Sometimes
  • Independent

• In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Life
  • Age
  • Earth

• Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Opposition
  • Other
  • Blinds

• I don't know if I expected to be a captain of an All-Star team. It's pretty cool.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Team

• As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.

  

  Bao Dai
  • Years
  • U.S.
  • Bitterness

• I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • God
  • Think
  • Me

• A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Window
  • Through
  • Nose

• Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Want
  • You
  • Now

• What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

  

  O. Henry
  • World
  • Together
  • Moving

• The act of me just being robust in the world is so radical - it's so radical for a black woman to think she's going to be a star, because it takes so much to get there. It's still a battle every day, but I feel happy because I feel like I cracked the code and figured out how to work through it. Now I want to give the map to other women.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • World
  • Work
  • Women

• Most police work boils down to minimizing the impact on society of stupidity; of the remainder, the overwhelming majority is about malice and deliberate evil, but it’s still almost all stupid.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Work
  • Society
  • Evil

• Anyone who wants to understand human nature, the interaction between brain and culture, between evolution and society, has to take a close look at the role that music has held in the lives of humans.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Society

• My friend George and I were walking on the beach in Norfolk, and there were thousands of [razor-clam] shells. They were so beautiful, I thought I had to do something with them. So, we decided to make [a dress] out of them. . . . The shells had outlived their usefulness on the beach, so we put them to another use on a dress. Then Erin [O’Conner] came out and trashed the dress, so their usefulness was over once again. Kind of like fashion, really.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Beautiful
  • Friend
  • Fashion

• A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Society
  • Human
  • Prison