William Hazlitt Quotes

The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.

William Hazlitt

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• Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • Past
  • Progress
  • Civil Rights

• Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Government

• Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Community
  • Build
  • Hats

• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Great
  • Art
  • Steal

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• Maybe it is the media that has us divided.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Media
  • Maybe
  • Divided

• We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Think
  • Future
  • Party

• I never said half the things I said.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Never
  • Said
  • Half

• I have a great office.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Great
  • Office

• Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Happen
  • Victim
  • My Own

• I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Kids
  • Enjoy
  • Working

• I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Time
  • Own
  • Cinema

• What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Power
  • History
  • Past

• I think that liberals need to grow up.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Up
  • Think
  • Grow

• To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • May
  • First
  • Example

• A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Rights
  • Estate
  • Requests

• I used to believe that hurting would make you more alive to the hurting of others. I used to believe in feeling bad because somebody else did. Now I'm not so sure of either.

  

  Leslie Jamison
  • Believe
  • Bad
  • Feeling

• Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return. Each separate being in the universe returns to the common source. Returning to the source is serenity. If you don't realize the source, you stumble in confusion and sorrow. When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, disinterested, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, dignified as a king. Immersed in the wonder of the Tao, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Ready

• Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Death
  • Remembering

• I started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band.

  

  Verite
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Band

• My work is a complex product of a personality continuous with all of nature, and one making progressively better-integrated efforts to structure experience on all levels.... My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exploration of experience. No words will ever touch it.

  

  George Brecht
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Product

• The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Mind
  • Humanity
  • Sacrifice