Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack.

Ezra Taft Benson

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• I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Power
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Dance
  • Yoga
  • Hippie

• It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Democracy
  • Religion

• War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Political
  • Military

• Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Military

• Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Religion
  • Matter

• We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

  

  Quintilian
  • Difficulty
  • Sloth
  • Pretext

• The government must adopt a rights-based approach that speaks to the needs and aspirations of surrogate mothers, children born out of surrogacy, and all individuals who want access to altruistic surrogacy services.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Children
  • Want
  • Government

• Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • People
  • Parents
  • Single

• Simple logic dictates that if you cannot even conceive the possibility of leaving a negotiation, then it is preferable never to enter one.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Simple
  • Leaving
  • Logic

• I could have gone on flying through space forever.

  

  Yuri Gagarin
  • Space
  • Forever
  • Flying

• Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Live
  • Food
  • Water

• Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Time
  • Proud
  • Sometimes

• I’m not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Children
  • Baby
  • Dog

• The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven, The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Heaven

• Once someone I was working with said, 'You know, Vanna, some people think about what they're having for lunch tomorrow and you're thinking hundreds of years into the future.'

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Future

• The glamour of Hollywood has never worn thin for me.

  

  Irene Dunne

• There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Reading

• I have four older siblings and one younger, and all three of my brothers are in the music industry. My dad was really involved in music, too, with the disco, and he also started Radio Caroline and was the one who invented pirate radio, if you like, off on a coast in England on a boat.

  

  Liberty Ross
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Boat

• You think you're fatigued, therefore you can't exercise. In fact, you choose not to move, therefore you feel fatigued.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Exercise
  • Choose
  • Move

• A final argument for broad freedom of expression is its effect on the character of individuals in a society. Citizens in a free society must have courage — the courage to hear not only unwelcome political speech but novel and shocking ideas in science and the arts.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • Character
  • Society
  • Free

• Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics and limited monarchies derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Society
  • Free
  • Freedom

• Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.

  

  George Lakoff
  • Enemy
  • Media
  • Competitors

• Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Freedom
  • Attack
  • Killed