Eric Reid Quotes

I refuse to be one of those people who watches injustices yet does nothing.

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• Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Me
  • Down
  • Refuse

• I refuse to make uninspired music.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Music
  • Refuse
  • Uninspired

• I'm really happy to be me, and I'd like to think people like me more because I'm happy with myself and not because I refuse to conform to anything.

  

  Adele
  • People
  • Happy
  • Refuse

• Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • War
  • Political
  • Peace

• Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Children
  • Family
  • City

• Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Accepting
  • Hip Hop
  • Limits

• There is no kind of experience in which a Christian has a right to refuse to.

  

  A. C. Dixon
  • Experience
  • Christian
  • Refuse

• The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Life
  • Live
  • Women

• The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

  

  Aristotle
  • Driven
  • Necessity
  • Excess

• To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Discussion
  • Refuse
  • False

• I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless of the reasons for the cause of a war.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Friends
  • War
  • Refuse

• Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Peace
  • Cry
  • Refuse

• Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Technology
  • Serious
  • Able

• If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Refuse
  • Affairs

• The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Cases
  • Refuse
  • Golden Rule

• We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Refuse
  • Esteem
  • Hesitation

• It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Refuse
  • Hopes
  • Superstitious

• Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Life is
  • Paradise
  • Refuse

• I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Bear
  • Chicken
  • Kissed

• In the middle of life, death comes to take your measurements. The visit is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit is being sewn on the sly.

  

  Tomas Transtromer
  • Death
  • Visit
  • Suit

• My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Fall
  • Passion
  • Wonder

• I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having to accumulate possessions, the intermediate suffering of having to guard and keep up possessions, nor the final suffering of loosing the possessions.

  

  Milarepa
  • Possession
  • Finals
  • Initials

• I try to solve my problems by writing music and recording albums, but you know what's really funny about that? Once the album becomes a success, it doesn't solve your problems. It just gets harder to write the next album.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Success

• I refuse to be one of those people who watches injustices yet does nothing.

  

  Eric Reid
  • Refuse
  • Injustices