Carl L. Becker (Carl Lotus Becker) Quotes

Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed.

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• The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Time
  • Brothers
  • Favorites

• Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • May
  • Freedom
  • Anger

• So often, when we don't have people that can be representative or symbolic of leadership and of faith, of purpose, in that absence we become bitter and resentful.

  

  Nate Parker
  • People
  • Faith
  • Purpose

• Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Life
  • Spring
  • Brilliant

• A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Thinking
  • Man
  • Knowledge

• As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Job
  • Opportunity
  • Fashion

• Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Up
  • Think
  • Nice

• I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Home
  • Like
  • Build

• You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • People
  • Day
  • Treat

• If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Change

• If Madonna asks anybody to go and hang out with them for a month, they'd all do it.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Anybody
  • Month
  • Hang

• What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • World
  • Action
  • Thought

• I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Best
  • Person
  • See

• Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Bad
  • Soul
  • Deep

• My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. But I do find it a bit bizarre that people find it bizarre that I've grown up.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • People
  • Bizarre
  • Grown-Up

• In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • War
  • Shadow

• The Smethwick Conservatives can have the satisfaction of having topped the poll, and of having sent here as their Member one who, until a further General Election restores him to oblivion, will serve his term here as a Parliamentary leper

  

  Harold Wilson

• No Christian can avoid theology. Every Christian has a theology. The issue, then, is not, dowe want to have a theology? That's a given. The real issue is, do we have a sound theology.? Do we embrace true or false doctrine?

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Real
  • True
  • Christian

• The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities to be impressed with it.

  

  James Madison
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• When you fight corruption, corruption strikes back and that is the truth because when you fight corruption, you get confidence and when it gets to impunity, then it gets aggressive and says, 'oh, so you think you are different? You think you are tough and different?' This is why some of us are almost permanently in the libel court.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Different
  • Fighting
  • Tough

• The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Language
  • Questions
  • Someone

• Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed.

  

  Carl L. Becker
  • Different
  • Speech
  • Corporations