Lee R. Raymond Quotes

There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

Lee R. Raymond

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• People always want to doubt you.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Want
  • Doubt

• I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Single
  • Difficult
  • Stress

• I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Think
  • You
  • Go

• Economically, ISIS is making money every day on the black market with their oil fields. But they are also putting money in banks. We know where those banks are. We should go after the banks and the facilitators using them.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Money
  • Black
  • Day

• My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Life
  • Dream
  • My Life

• Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • Men
  • Man

• I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • Great
  • Know

• We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Country
  • Small
  • Build

• Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Looks
  • Flowers

• Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Stories

• In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Trying
  • Soul
  • Pain

• Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Man

• I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Know
  • Plan
  • Got

• I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Different
  • Movie
  • Like

• Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Life
  • Poverty

• Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Great
  • Passion
  • Creative

• Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • American
  • Oppression
  • Walls

• I am obsessed with rap music - it's such a big part of my life.

  

  Randall Park
  • Life
  • Music
  • My Life

• Liberty is only valued when it is threatened, therefore it is the threat that highlights the value. We should be grateful to the Nadir, since they heighten the value of our liberty.

  

  David Gemmell
  • Value

• As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Up
  • High
  • Myself

• I'm deeply stressed as a filmmaker, and I know I'm not alone. The censorship crisis, the moral policing, the politics of it has most of us on edge. I'm scared to use certain words: like, if I use 'Bombay,' will there be a problem?

  

  Karan Johar
  • Words
  • Alone
  • Moral

• Human affairs require some combination of moral commitment with disciplined political action. And that is what keeps me intrigued and challenged and wanting to influence events.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Political
  • Me
  • Action

• There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

  

  Lee R. Raymond
  • Moral