William Golding Quotes

I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.

William Golding

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• Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • American
  • Everyday

• In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • School
  • Law
  • Respect

• Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Pain
  • Sad
  • Sadness

• I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Know

• We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Good
  • Done
  • Start

• I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Kids
  • Pleasing
  • Fired

• A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Want
  • Talk
  • Little Girls

• The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • World
  • Country
  • History

• Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • Feeling
  • Human

• As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Ability
  • More
  • Will

• For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • Picture
  • Vote

• I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Power
  • Always
  • Never

• Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • Loving
  • Preaching

• We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • May
  • Think
  • Democracy

• I like to make my name of songs strange.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Like
  • Name
  • Strange

• You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Why
  • Media

• It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Working

• I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Time
  • Mom
  • Right

• If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.

  

  Jack Black
  • Up
  • Band
  • Beethoven

• Acapulco, Mexico: '...queer, dirty little dago town....The people are too revolting for words, super dagoes & some of them are quite black as a result of Spaniards inter-breeding with the Indians; & of course they only speak Spanish' (9 September 1920)

  

  Edward VIII
  • People
  • Black
  • Words

• If you are wearing the right jersey, people rallying in around you, and hugging each other when you win, and there's so much love and excitement when you're together. And then people seem to walk away, take their jerseys off, and start focusing on the color of your skin. It didn't matter for that couple hours at the game - why does it matter now?

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • People
  • Why
  • Together

• I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • War

• The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion.

  

  Virchand Gandhi
  • Men
  • Evolution
  • Injury

• I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.

  

  William Golding
  • People
  • Men
  • Evil