Albert Meltzer Quotes

Why, since people must outnumber the minority that comprises the State and its oppressive forces, have they submitted so meekly to it?

Albert Meltzer

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• I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Perspective
  • Ambition
  • Grace

• The highest state is laughter.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Laughter
  • State
  • Highest

• Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • God
  • Law
  • Will

• Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Views
  • Sell
  • Minority

• Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • You
  • Truth Is
  • Minority

• Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Like
  • Prejudice
  • Minority

• The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Living
  • Jews
  • Minority

• I am a supporter of the state of Israel.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Israel
  • Supporter

• This country is about history, and unless the Serbs in particular come to some understanding of this history, we cannot build a stable state.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Country
  • History
  • Understanding

• It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Good
  • Deal

• If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having an all-out nuclear war, that possibility is very slim.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
  • Power
  • War
  • Danger

• Generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you. But it doesn't say what the state or federal government must do on your behalf.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Government
  • Say
  • Constitution

• The state of the world terrifies me. It feels more powerful personally to fight it through larger actions as opposed to trying to fight the Trump administration itself. It's sort of self-preservation for my mental health. If I spend too much of my energy and my brain on Trump, I'd lose my mind.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • World
  • Mind
  • Trying

• Carolyn [Maloney] is the kind of legislator who, whether she's in the majority or the minority, whether her party is in the majority or the minority, she doesn't take "No" for an answer, and she frequently calls women leaders and say, "I think we should do this. This is really necessary for women." And so she hangs in there and gets bills passed when people think it's not possible.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • People
  • Women
  • She

• I am a proponent of investing in infrastructure… and, if we can use state resources to make ProvPort more prosperous and successful, then that will benefit the whole state.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • State
  • Resources
  • Benefit

• When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

  

  Aristotle
  • End
  • Poor
  • State

• Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

  

  Aristotle
  • Experience
  • Impossible
  • Laws

• But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the less of a state it becomes and the more a household, and the household in turn an individual.

  

  Aristotle
  • Individual
  • Unity
  • State

• The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of the trod-upon world. These poems eddy and pool in unpredictable and often surprising ways, much as the mind moves in its twilight state between waking and sleep. The fluidity of their cadence and the luminosity of their imagery carry the reader to the wellspring of poetry itself, that deep delight of which Robert Penn Warren spoke, whose source is, in Soniat's words, 'beauty on its way to being mystery.'

  

  Kathryn Stripling Byer
  • Girl
  • Mystery
  • State

• The fact that I am a Filipino actor playing a Filipino role is crazy. Filipinos are the second largest Asian minority in the United States, and we're hardly represented in the media and on television.

  

  Nico Santos
  • Television
  • Minority
  • Asian

• Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Life
  • Within
  • Secrecy

• It can take years of tears to melt the hardness that develops in this world, covering our tender, gentler inner selves. Tears for every devastating loss, tears for every humiliating failure, tears for every repeated mistake. Those who honor those tears, and even honor them, are not failures at love but rather its true initiates. First the pain and then the power. First the heart breaks and then it soars.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Heart
  • Power

• Why, since people must outnumber the minority that comprises the State and its oppressive forces, have they submitted so meekly to it?

  

  Albert Meltzer
  • State
  • Minority
  • Submitted