Arno (Arnold Charles Ernest Hintjens) Quotes

The Creed of the Assassin Brotherhood teaches us that nothing is forbidden to us. Once, I thought that meant we were free to do as we would. To pursue our ideals, no matter the cost. I understand now. Not a grant of permission. The Creed is a warning.

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• We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Commitment

• Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Ideals

• We are living in a dynamic age with multiple ideas and beliefs of correctness; this world is not deterministic and not still.

  

  Li Ka-shing
  • World
  • Age
  • Ideals

• The whole purpose of working is to support your ideal lifestyle.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Support
  • Purpose
  • Whole

• Saying "yes" doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying "please" doesn't mean I am waiting for permission.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Waiting
  • Please
  • Permission

• It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission.

  

  Bill Bowerman
  • Forgiveness
  • Easier
  • Asks

• Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.

  

  Jacques Roumain
  • Leaving
  • Bones
  • Misfortune

• For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nonviolence
  • Companions
  • Creed

• For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Dust
  • Ideals
  • Fragments

• I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Ideals
  • Refused
  • Concessions

• I'm a moderate Democrat. I've always been fascinated and maddened by the way things get done in our system, which as an ideal is so extraordinary, but the way it actually works can be mind-boggling.

  

  Tony Goldwyn
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Extraordinary

• I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.

  

  Shane Carruth
  • Film
  • Matter
  • Plans

• The heart doesn’t ask permission. It is singularly unconcerned with the qualifications of those it chooses to love. It mocks the intellect, it subjugates reason, and it holds hostage the will to survive.

  

  Connie Brockway
  • Heart
  • Reason
  • Permission

• Freedom without ideals does more harm than good.

  

  Arturo Graf
  • Freedom
  • Harm
  • Ideals

• It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Becoming
  • Fields
  • Stones

• The younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses . . . Each generation . . . will have its creed.

  

  Alain LeRoy Locke
  • Spirit
  • Generation
  • Creed

• Nowadays I see my work being used, without my permission, as if it was an attack against the Trump regime. People want to say, "No! That's not my America, not the America I know." I'm honored - it's just not me. But as we were saying before, the artist loses control.

  

  Alfredo Jaar
  • Work
  • Used
  • Permission

• Ultimately, of what possible social significance is it if a person likes to masturbate over a shoe? It may even be non-consensual, but since we do not ask permission of our shoes to wear them, it hardly seems necessary to obtain dispensation to come on them.

  

  Gayle Rubin
  • Shoes
  • Permission
  • Masturbate

• For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif.

  

  William-Adolphe Bouguereau
  • Works
  • Landscape
  • Ideals

• The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The idea that a goal can be attained perpetually frustrates human beings, who are disappointed at never getting there, never being able to stop.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Ideas
  • Goal
  • Humans

• The direction we are going in at this moment is the negation of material goods as being important and the great importance of spiritual values and sensations. Permissiveness, if you will. There is tremendous talk of sex and bi-sexuality.

  

  Emilio Pucci
  • Great
  • Important
  • Moments

• The proper man understands equity, the small man profits.

  

  Confucius
  • Man
  • Profits
  • Equity

• The Creed of the Assassin Brotherhood teaches us that nothing is forbidden to us. Once, I thought that meant we were free to do as we would. To pursue our ideals, no matter the cost. I understand now. Not a grant of permission. The Creed is a warning.

  

  Arno
  • Ideals
  • Permission
  • Creed