Daryl Davis Quotes

Ignorance breeds fear. If you don't keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. If you don't keep hatred in check it will breed destruction.

Daryl Davis

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• Hatred

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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
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• Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

  

  Kate Thompson
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• I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
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• These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.

  

  Larry Flynt
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• It's all for a reason and all happened the way it was supposed to happen.

  

  Carlene Carter
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• Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority rights. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Rand Paul
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• Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her,And tempted her out of her gloom.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe

• ...we like somebody who succeeds with such bad conscience, and who seems to wish that he had the nerve to be a failure or, better still, something to which the terms success and failure don’t apply-as when Mallory said, about Everest: 'Success is meaningless here.'

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Bad
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• Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look Across the roofs as sigil and as ward And in your centre mark them and are cowed . . .

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Violence
  • Dumb

• We thus have a kind of see-saw: first, pure persuasion leading to the conversion of a minority; then force exerted to secure that the rest of the community shall be exposed to the right propaganda; and finally a genuine belief on the part of the great majority, which makes the use of force again unnecessary.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Great
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• This is George Bush’s accountability moment.

  

  Cindy Sheehan
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• Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
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• A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

• There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen.

  

  Leland Stanford

• When you have kids, all your plans, everything that you do is for them to have fun.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
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• It's something my mother believed in: If you are in a position of privilege, if you can put your name to something that you genuinely believe in, you can smash any stigma you want, and you can encourage anybody to do anything.

  

  Prince Harry
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• When you live in a small town behind the Pine Curtain, you live inside your head a lot.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
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• Before we can build the world we want to live in, we have to imagine it.

  

  Simon Sinek
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• As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • People
  • Ignorance
  • Opportunities

• Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And the politicians are not going to disclose the, let's say, limited body of knowledge in their constituencies. You don't get elected calling your voters airheads.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Political
  • Knowledge
  • Body

• The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind.

  

  Moza bint Nasser
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Culture

• Ignorance breeds fear. If you don't keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. If you don't keep hatred in check it will breed destruction.

  

  Daryl Davis
  • Ignorance
  • Destruction
  • Hatred