W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the greatest good of all, but no human group has ever reached this ideal because of ignorance and selfishness.

W. E. B. Du Bois

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• President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.

  

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• I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Desire
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• I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

  

  Larry Wilmore
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• The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.

  

  Rand Paul
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• The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

  

  Larry Wall
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• I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Want
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• Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
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• Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Thinking
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• Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Party
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  • Social

• I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Important
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• I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
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• You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
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• But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

  

  Kate Chopin
  • World
  • Beginning
  • Tangled

• I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Fashion
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• Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Hurt
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• Vegetarians in general don't like me.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Me
  • Like
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• I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Father
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• It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Want

• Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Up
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• It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • God
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• I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag. Then you can just mix your everyday tops from the high street.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Good
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• We're not going back anywhere, we're going forward, we're going forward in democracy, we're going forward in participation, we're going forward with ideas.

  

  Jeremy Corbyn
  • Democracy

• The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the greatest good of all, but no human group has ever reached this ideal because of ignorance and selfishness.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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  • Effort