William Hazlitt Quotes

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

William Hazlitt

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• Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • People
  • Rights
  • Unions

• For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Mirror
  • Back
  • Seeing

• I am passionate about human rights.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Passionate

• Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Up
  • You
  • Rights

• But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Natural
  • Rights
  • Recycling

• A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Rights
  • Bill Of Rights

• I love seeing when actors go from one genre to the next because I feel like most of them can pull it off.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Love
  • Feel
  • Seeing

• Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Artist
  • Rights
  • Manager

• I have to say, working with Dan Stevens in 'The Guest' and seeing his transformation was incredible. Also Kate Winslet. Off set, she's loud and sweary, but when she walks on set, she has this calmness and is so centred.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Transformation
  • Calmness
  • Kate Winslet

• The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Responsibility
  • Care
  • Seeing

• I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing you have 18 frames a second you can take out one or two and I couldn't tell.

  

  Abraham Zapruder
  • You
  • Seeing
  • Seen

• As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Development
  • Expectations
  • Rights

• If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • You
  • Fight
  • Rights

• Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Rights
  • Personal
  • Property

• I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Myself
  • I Can
  • Seeing

• Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Good
  • Lies
  • Seeing

• Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Spirit
  • Rights

• I hear that Donald Trump is watching the Olympics tonight. He's seeing how high the Mexican pole vaulters go.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • High
  • Trump
  • Seeing

• I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Films
  • Seeing
  • Carbon

• I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.

  

  Norman Granz
  • Matter
  • Development
  • Rights

• If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.

  

  Socrates
  • Good
  • Men
  • Politics

• Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Love
  • Energy
  • For Her

• Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Rights
  • Seeing
  • Reform