Evan Thomas Quotes

I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair.

Evan Thomas

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• What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Lies
  • inspirational
  • Comparison

• I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Economic
  • Policy
  • Republicans

• Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.

  

  Rachel Skarsten
  • History
  • Reality
  • Comparison

• Fundamental ideas play the most essential role in forming a physical theory. Books on physics are full of complicated mathematical formulae. But thought and ideas, not formulae, are the beginning of every physical theory. The ideas must later take the mathematical form of a quantitative theory, to make possible the comparison with experiment.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Ideas
  • Thought
  • Theory

• Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • Inspiration
  • Enterprises
  • Extremists

• People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Comparison
  • Threatening

• Such knowledge is probably gained in several ways. One process undoubtedly operates through social comparison of success and failure experiences. Children repeatedly observe their own behavior and the attainments of others.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Children
  • Success
  • Knowledge

• The Labor Party is a body that does not seek political life, and does not fight for its life.

  

  Ami Ayalon
  • Life
  • Political
  • Party

• Tea Party Republicans, in an effort to kill the farm bill will stereotype and make racial comments about food stamps - which is a big element to the program.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • Food
  • Party
  • Effort

• The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Home
  • Reality
  • Reason

• While 2013 will not see a major national election, we can be sure that most Republicans will obstruct and some Democrats will appease.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Election
  • Republicans
  • Democrats

• Arnold Schwarzenegger is in trouble after tapes surfaced of him saying negative things about other Republicans. Actually the Schwarzenegger tapes surfaced last year, but they weren't deciphered until this week.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Trouble
  • Republicans
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger

• When it comes to being visionary in stealing, the Republicans do better than anybody. It's really something to see.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Stealing
  • Republicans
  • Visionary

• Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable; impracticality almost seems cool.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Live
  • Real

• I certainly hope the strengths and values of this country hold up to comparison to other cultures.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Up
  • Country
  • Hope

• The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Democracy
  • Liberty
  • Republicans

• For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Comparison

• Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Hate
  • Justice
  • Injustice

• The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world ," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • People
  • Conservatives
  • Extremists

• Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.

  

  Ernest Poole
  • House
  • Cutting
  • Grows

• If one does not wish bonds broken, one should make them elastic and thereby strengthen them.

  

  Ardant du Picq
  • Make
  • Bonds
  • Strengthen

• For many people of color, learning to break the silence is a survival issue. To remain silent would be to disconnect from her own experience, to swallow and internalize her own oppression.The cost of silence is too high.

  

  Beverly Daniel Tatum
  • Learning
  • Silence
  • Issue

• I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair.

  

  Evan Thomas
  • Republicans
  • Comparison
  • Moderates