Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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• I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

  

  Kanye West
  • Family
  • Black
  • Hate

• Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

  

  Iris Chang
  • See
  • Media
  • Economic

• I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Think
  • Support
  • Lost

• Sometimes, by using the most over-the-top, ridiculous plot device you can imagine, you get some interesting little conflicts and cool things that you might not otherwise have a chance to explore.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Interesting
  • Cool
  • Chance

• Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Education
  • Child
  • Sides

• We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Think
  • Always
  • Matters

• Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Political

• I didn't have a childhood.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Childhood

• The Soviet Union's termination, which brought to an end the bipolar world, ushered in an era of U.S. hegemony. Hegemony, however, should not be confused with omnipotence. Hegemony is not omnipotence but is certainly preponderance.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • End
  • Confused

• I'm so stupid because I refuse to think that I'm getting older. I get up in the morning, and it's like, 'La, la, la, I'm so pretty.' I still mingle with a lot with young people. I even go to college campuses to talk to them because I know how they think. They don't think I'm boring, either. They think I'm cool, but I want them to think I'm hot!

  

  María del Rosario Pilar Martínez Molina Baeza
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• Kofi Annan has already been instrumental in pushing forward that debate in the United Nations. I firmly support his efforts. A successful United Nations Summit next week presents the international community with a real opportunity to secure the necessary change.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Real
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• My mantra about everything that has to do with public policy is: identify and reject the false choice.

  

  Kamala Harris

• We're very, very happy with the decisions we've made.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Happy
  • Decisions

• I would like to thank the Western diplomats, especially Mr Solana and Mr Robertson, because their contribution truly benefits humanity and us Albanians as well because we are part of the great European family.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Humanity
  • Contribution
  • Diplomats

• Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Night
  • City
  • Angel

• All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Despotism

• I don't really listen to Radiohead. I listened to the albums and they just didn't move me in the way, say, John Prine does. His is just extraordinarily eloquent music.

  

  Roger Waters Pink Floyd
  • Music
  • Listen
  • Move

• Our goal is to move not hundreds of miles, but tens of miles.

  

  Craig Fugate
  • Goal
  • Move
  • Miles

• It's a scene in Boston Harbor. It's in the Yellow Sitting Room on the second floor. And he always teased me about not having my name on it.

  

  Lew Wasserman
  • Name
  • Scene
  • Teased

• The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Move
  • Surface
  • Despotism