Mikhail Bakunin Quotes

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

Mikhail Bakunin

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• As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.

  

  Taylor Handley
  • Great
  • Relationship
  • Friendship

• I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Computers
  • Cursed

• I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Think
  • Player
  • Confidence

• Make yourself comfortable in everything you do.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Everything

• I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • School
  • High
  • Black

• In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Real
  • Service
  • Competition

• My friends are my family.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Family
  • Friends

• It is a difficult one, as you get scripts where women are just objects.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Women
  • You
  • Difficult

• I grew up on Long Island, and from as early as I can remember, as far back as first grade, I had two real passions - one of them was putting on plays, and the other was journalism. I was directing plays and editing school papers from first grade on, all the way through college.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Up
  • Long
  • Real

• After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Up

• In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Great
  • Artist
  • Female

• Beauty comes from within, not from what you wear.

  

  Adele
  • Beauty
  • Wear

• Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He is.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Tell
  • Reveal

• I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
  • Plan
  • Companies
  • Conglomerates

• I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • School
  • Money
  • Kids

• All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value; to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Life
  • God
  • Value

• The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • People
  • Respect
  • Tyranny

• We are not joining the coalition of the idiots. We are joining the coalition of the wise.

  

  Carolyn Parrish
  • Wise
  • Idiots
  • Coalition

• The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • Thinking
  • True
  • Individual

• If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Friends
  • Slavery
  • Generations

• It is quite possible that societies - much like individuals - collectively repress information, concepts, and ideas which would produce high anxiety levels if dealt with consciously.

  

  Wilson Bryan Key
  • Individual
  • Anxiety

• Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

  

  Mikhail Bakunin
  • Individual
  • Social
  • Generations