Benjamin Rush Quotes
Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
-
Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
-
I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
-
The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.
-
A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
-
Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
-
I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
-
I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
-
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
-
I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
-
Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
-
Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
-
The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world.
-
But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
-
'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
-
The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
-
It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
-
Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
-
We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher platform.
-
I won't change and my perspective won't change. I want to continue my life the way I live it, and I'm not going to let anything stop me from doing that. It isn't all about acting. There's a lot more to life than Hollywood.
-
I loved Fred Astaire's way of dancing. He led you into the dance.
-
Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the cultural and historical setting of the text, leaves us forced to accept scientific and sociological norms of the ancient Near East from 3,000 years ago.
-
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
-
Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
