George Meany Quotes

The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.

George Meany

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• The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • America
  • Support

• I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Experience
  • Satisfaction

• Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Giving

• I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • People
  • Parents
  • Like

• Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Work
  • May
  • Open-minded

• I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Earth
  • Car
  • Truck

• All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Long
  • Words
  • Beginning

• A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • School
  • America
  • Change

• It's actually harder to write a fun song.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Write

• Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Women
  • Stand
  • Lib

• Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Life
  • Long
  • Job

• It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • World
  • Children
  • Duty

• Teachers alone can't educate young people.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • People
  • Alone
  • Young

• Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Team
  • Football
  • Stronger

• Villains are fun to play.

  

  Edi Gathegi
  • Fun
  • Play
  • Villains

• Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • War
  • Peace
  • Last

• Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Soul

• To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Reading

• I love doing comedy, and that's the thing I will always go back to, really, but I'd love to have the freedom to do sort of 'meaty' roles but also have the freedom to do the sort of films I want to make, like what Woody Allen does. You forget he's funny because you're so gripped by the story, but they still make you laugh.

  

  Alice Lowe
  • Freedom
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• In knowledge of human affairs, we should never allow our minds to be enslaved by others by subjecting ourselves to their whims. We must maintain freedom of thought, and never accept anything of purely human authority into our heads. When we are presented with a diversity of opinions, we must choose, if we can; if we cannot, we must remain in doubt.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Freedom
  • Knowledge
  • Doubt

• I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

  

  Mark Millar

• Knowing that girls are inspired to not have the burden of self-hate, even if it's a tiny way, makes me happy to no end. It gets me up in the morning and softens a lot of the blows I get.

  

  Barbie Ferreira
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Hate

• The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.

  

  George Meany
  • Freedom
  • Americans
  • Persistent