David Landes Quotes

It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice

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• Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore, for example.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • City
  • Example
  • Prejudice

• People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Done
  • Ideas

• Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Criticism
  • Made
  • Prejudice

• Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Benefits
  • Street
  • Trees

• I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Literature
  • Pride
  • Books

• 'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Period
  • Pride
  • Prejudice

• I believe the most important thing for the media is to be objective, fair, and balanced. We should not report a story with preconceptions or prejudice.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Media

• Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Men
  • Benefits
  • Feminism

• I'm disappearing from twitter for a while. Need a break from the bile. Local prejudice just seems to bring out the worst in some people.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Worst
  • Prejudice

• Justice is immortal, eternal, and immutable, like God Himself; and the development of law is only then a progress when it is directed towards those principles which like Him, are eternal; and whenever prejudice or error succeeds in establishing in customary law any doctrine contrary to eternal justice.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • God
  • Law
  • Justice

• To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers' ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.

  

  J. G. Stedman
  • Feeling
  • Education
  • Woman

• Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing.

  

  Samuel Hahnemann
  • Art
  • True
  • Freedom

• I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Reality
  • Respect
  • Economic

• It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.

  

  Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Evolution

• Any community that remains an abstraction is an easy target for prejudice and cruelty, but any community that becomes fully humanized is much harder to treat in that way.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Community
  • Easy
  • Prejudice

• One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Great
  • Religion
  • Benefits

• It's one of the biggest benefits of being president that you really don't think about until you get here.

  

  Barack Obama
  • President
  • Being
  • Benefits

• Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Live
  • Stupid

• Dirt rolls from his palm, Blades of grass Tumble from his hair.

  

  Gary Soto
  • Hair
  • Grass
  • Dirt

• It's weird doing a show on a Saturday, because we get the news after everybody had their way with it. We still have to find a way to get something fresh out of the story, but also keep the integrity of it. A lot of times the obvious take is so obvious it's already been on Twitter, so we gotta find a new thing.

  

  Michael Che
  • Integrity
  • Saturday
  • Obvious

• Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom. Young adults, he thought, should be allowed to develop their capabilities in their distinctive way.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Modern
  • Adults
  • Educational

• We are thinking, willing, knowing, conscious centers of Life. We are surrounded by, immersed in, and there is flowing through us, a creative Something ... call It what you will.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Creative

• I'm a major feminist. There's a real politic in life, where I've been in rooms where real decisions are made, and it's a lot of powerful white men. There are women in those rooms, but not as many as there should be.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice

  

  David Landes
  • Evolution
  • Benefits
  • Prejudice