Madame Roland Quotes

It would have cost me more trouble to escape from injustice, than it does to submit to it.

Madame Roland

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• We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Injustice

• Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Good
  • Honesty
  • Cost

• It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Silent
  • Injustice
  • Racial

• I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood.

  

  Viktor Yanukovych
  • Power
  • Blood
  • Cost

• For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

  

  Iris Chang
  • People
  • Future
  • Injustice

• I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.

  

  Edmund White
  • Injustice
  • Homosexuality

• What Obamacare does is decreases choices and drives up cost.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Choices
  • Cost

• Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Different
  • Country
  • Cost

• I just have this thing about injustice. Everybody hates the big injustices - I know. But I hate even the little injustices, even the way a salesclerk treats somebody who is shabbily dressed and happens to go into a nice store.

  

  Maggie Williams
  • Know
  • Hate
  • Nice

• At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Real
  • Army
  • Injustice

• Every retailer, when they price their goods, looks at their total cost overall. When they have costs go up, they'll price their products accordingly.

  

  Dan Butler
  • Up
  • Looks
  • Price

• Chemicals are really simple. You mix a couple things together and sell it for more than the materials cost.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Together
  • Simple
  • Couple

• You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Long
  • Speak
  • Injustice

• Books on their own aren't insanely expensive compared to other things; three large cappuccinos cost more than a paperback, and two and a half gallons of gas cost more than a paperback.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Two
  • Three
  • Cost

• The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Up
  • Living
  • Cost

• There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Knows
  • Doe
  • Roles

• In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Die
  • Mean
  • Bible

• The tragedy unfolding in Zimbabwe is driven by one man's ruthless campaign to hang on to power whatever the cost to others in the process.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Power
  • Process
  • Tragedy

• It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Work
  • Small
  • Cost

• I have already spoken to three US Presidents. They come and go, but politics stay the same at all times. Do you know why? Because of the powerful bureaucracy. When a person is elected, they may have some ideas. Then people with briefcases arrive, well dressed, wearing dark suits, just like mine, except for the red tie, since they wear black or dark blue ones. These people start explaining how things are done. And instantly, everything changes. This is what happens with every administration.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Black
  • Powerful

• He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

  

  Confucius
  • Words
  • Modesty
  • Speaks

• I always have plans to return to the stage. I leave myself very open. I think what would be more likely is if I did a limited run of something, whether it be a play or a musical.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Always

• Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped from him — as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • She
  • Hurt
  • Smile

• It would have cost me more trouble to escape from injustice, than it does to submit to it.

  

  Madame Roland
  • Doe
  • Cost
  • Injustice