Eugene V. Debs Quotes

Labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission of emancipating the workers of the world from the thraldom of the ages is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.

Eugene V. Debs

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• Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Future
  • Justice
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• I am surrounded by great people.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Great

• The glass is always half full: I have no time for anything negative - and actually, I've bought crystals for all my team, so they all carry crystals as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Team
  • Negative

• I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout.

  

  M. C. Gainey
  • City
  • Car
  • Jump

• Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Childhood
  • Nobody
  • Where

• In the chapter on the nature of the atonement [in the book saving Calvinism] I argue that it is a mistake to think that penal substitution is the only option on the doctrine of atonement.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Nature

• It's not as if ten years ago, we were like, 'I wish I could take low quality photos of my dessert.'

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Wish
  • Quality
  • Lows

• How'd we come up with the robe? Was some guy just like, 'Hey, I've got an idea! Why don't we make a coat out of a towel? You can have a little belt that goes around. You could dunk the belt in the toilet! Have a toilet belt.'

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Guy
  • Ideas
  • Littles

• And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Voice

• On religion in particular the time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have on mature consideration satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false but hurtful, to make their dissent known.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Religion
  • Duty
  • Opinions

• I don't have a life-style, I have a life.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Style
  • Lifestyle

• There's no such thing as a perfect relationship. It's about finding someone who matches you and will go through everything without giving up.

  

  Ziad Abdelnour
  • Relationship
  • Perfect
  • Match

• The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Light
  • Violence
  • Sex

• Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency. . .

  

  Aristotle
  • Moral
  • Qualities
  • Destroyed

• Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Labor
  • Activity
  • Leisure

• Labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission of emancipating the workers of the world from the thraldom of the ages is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Labor
  • Workers
  • Emancipation