Nellie McClung Quotes

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

Nellie McClung

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• The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.

  

  Omar Bongo
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• I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

  

  Nancy Roman
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• If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell.

  

  Omari Hardwick
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• I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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• Rich people march on Washington every day.

  

  I. F. Stone
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• Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.

  

  Bear Grylls
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• No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

  

  J. Paul Getty
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• This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
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• In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • War
  • Peace
  • Rich

• I don't think it matters what school you go to, but I think it's important for parents to be involved. And to know that when school stops, learning continues, and to continue teaching at home.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • School

• Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Rich
  • Happier

• To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none. You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become—this.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • College

• If I say to my daughter, "Go say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • People
  • Money
  • Rich

• Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Ego
  • Teaching
  • Benefit

• I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Business
  • Remember
  • Today

• If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Writing
  • Teaching
  • Intellectual

• I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that's changed my entire perspective.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Mother
  • Years
  • Perspective

• The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Fighting
  • Rich
  • Poor

• Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Different
  • Kind

• I don't know where we're going or how we'll get there, but when we get there we'll be there - and that's something, even if it's nothing.

  

  S. J. Perelman

• I'm a warrior if you try to hurt my family. And anybody I see getting it in the neck out there, I'm right there to protect them. I'm a big, strong guy who knows what he's doing. I've stopped a lot of things in the street, stopped a lot of people from getting hurt.

  

  Paul Sorvino
  • Family
  • Protect
  • Warrior

• War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

  

  Nellie McClung
  • Rich
  • Changed
  • Teaching