Jack Layton Quotes

The Liberal party has been in power throughout this entire scandalous affair. And Mr. Martin, to my knowledge, has been a very senior Liberal.

Jack Layton

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• Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

  

  Dana Spiotta
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• The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?

  

  Quentin Bryce
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• The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.

  

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• If there's a party and they won't let my friends in, I'd leave. No question.

  

  Zac Efron
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• This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

  

  Harold Wilson
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  • Moral
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• If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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  • Party
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• But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Power
  • Justice
  • Organization

• Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
  • Party
  • Justice

• If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Power
  • Free
  • Blind

• It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Parents
  • Faith
  • Religious

• The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Fear
  • Knowledge
  • Allah

• The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Power
  • Free
  • Humanity

• While our amplified knowledge of genetics - and the increasing precision of the field - does make it tempting to take on celebrity cases, retro-genetics can't always provide clear answers.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Knowledge
  • Always
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• Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Power
  • Wisdom

• You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Good
  • Power
  • Bad

• It is very difficult to be taken seriously when you're introduced at a party to somebody as the fourth Mrs. Rex Harrison.

  

  Rachel Roberts
  • You
  • Party
  • Taken

• I hate rules. I hate 'This is the way things are done'. I hate a lack of reinvention. I hate theatre as an archeological exercise. Theatre needs to be urgent.

  

  John Tiffany
  • Done
  • Hate
  • Exercise

• People are like, 'What's Game of Thrones about?' I'm like, 'It's in the title.' For real, this is a game for the Iron Throne. No matter what character you are, you're sucked into that at some point.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Real
  • Character

• I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better I can not tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Family
  • Earth
  • Die

• I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • School
  • Drama
  • Acting

• I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

  

  Frank Moore Colby
  • Feeling
  • Angry

• The Liberal party has been in power throughout this entire scandalous affair. And Mr. Martin, to my knowledge, has been a very senior Liberal.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Power
  • Knowledge
  • Party