Samuel Butler Quotes

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

Samuel Butler

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• The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Reform
  • Finance
  • Biggest

• At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Society
  • Better

• No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.

  

  Aaron Brown
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Wants

• I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Kid
  • Just
  • Rotten

• I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Dream
  • Woman
  • Matter

• I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Important
  • Play
  • Enough

• Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

  

  Ovid
  • Courage
  • Body
  • Strength

• Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • She
  • Language

• I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Two
  • Jazz
  • Bass

• When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Society
  • Sick
  • Liberty

• I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Think
  • You
  • Go

• The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Problem

• A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • World
  • Society
  • Past

• I'm not really a mainstream novelist!

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Really
  • Mainstream
  • Novelist

• My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Life
  • Dream
  • My Life

• When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Dream
  • Sometimes
  • Better

• ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Technology
  • Best
  • Chicago

• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Tree
  • Born

• The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Art
  • Reading
  • Fiction

• I'm sure, to many people, my life is not that exciting, but to me every day is an adventure.

  

  Angela Kinsey
  • People
  • Life
  • Adventure

• I think that every time you hurt somebody you care for, a crack appears in your relationship, a little weakening—and it stays there, dangerous, waiting for the next opportunity to open up and destroy everything.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Relationship
  • Hurt
  • Destroy

• You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.

  

  John Travolta
  • Friend
  • Justice
  • Friendship

• Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Justice
  • Doing
  • Injustice