Richard Mourdock Quotes

I'm absolutely confident that the God that I worship abhors violence.

Richard Mourdock

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• I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Best
  • Flower
  • Gardening

• I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

  

  B. B. King
  • Singer
  • Blues
  • Entertainer

• I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Writing
  • Model
  • Songs

• I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it.

  

  J. Cole
  • Long
  • Nice
  • End

• The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Rock
  • Better

• An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Law
  • Violence
  • More

• As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.

  

  Ian Holm
  • Life
  • Responsibility

• 'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.

  

  Adam Driver
  • You
  • Actor
  • Conversation

• World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • World
  • Important
  • War

• Although we have enough healthcare support, often it doesn't reach the poor and needy. In this scenario, technology is the best solution.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Support
  • Technology
  • Best

• I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • School
  • College
  • Miserable

• Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Society
  • Danger
  • Paul

• A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'

  

  Ted Williams
  • People
  • Man
  • Day

• We burden ourselves with useless ideas which we carelessly take as facts. Instead of letting reality come as a new surprise, we insist that it conform to our habitual concepts, and thus, we spoil everything.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Reality

• Doctor, you keep asking me to see your point of view, which is based on ethics. You never see mine, which isn’t.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Ethics

• Politics is a game of compromise.

  

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  • Game

• I know that many will call this useless work.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Work

• ...words were said that could not be put right again...

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Words

• Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the other hand, it is the handmaid of a sober, industrious, righteous, and brave man, who devotes all his powers to the service of the people, it is the sign of a lofty spirit that harbours no mean thoughts.

  

  Plutarch
  • People
  • Spirit
  • Poverty

• Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Democracy
  • Form
  • Worship

• Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a denial of wisdom. Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the nonviolent, the elegant and beautiful.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Power
  • Beautiful
  • Science

• Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying to persuade medical and psychiatrist establishments to deal with the intersex involves critique of the binary gender system. Similarly there continues to be extreme, sometimes very extreme violence against transgender people.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Violence
  • Deal
  • Establishments

• In countries where education has gone up and you see women in the work place and they are doing things for themselves, you see a rise in gender based violence.

  

  Babatunde Osotimehin
  • Work
  • Women
  • Education

• I'm absolutely confident that the God that I worship abhors violence.

  

  Richard Mourdock
  • Violence
  • Worship