Insists Quotes

• Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Remembers
  • DIffers
  • Insists

• Every one of the aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being waged to make the world safe for democracy. What humbug! What rot! What false pretense! These... tyrants, these red-handed robbers and murderers, the "patriots," while the men who have the courage to stand face to face with them, speak the truth, and fight for their exploited victims - they are [called] the disloyalists and traitors. If this be true, I want to take my place side by side with the traitors in this fight.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • War
  • Democracy
  • Victims

• Though we live in a world that dreams of ending that always seems about to give in something that will not acknowledge conclusion insists that we forever begin.

  

  Brendan Kennelly
  • Dreams
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledge

• My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Pain
  • Religion
  • Civil Suicide

• There is no force as powerful as a promise that insists on being kept.

  

  Barry B. Longyear
  • Promise
  • Insists

• Chacun exige d'e" tre innocent, a' tout prix, me" me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Heaven
  • Human Race
  • Insists

• Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body. ... We should say, 'I am sad; everything looks black to me; but external events are in no way responsible. It's my body that insists on reasoning. These are the opinions of my stomach.'

  

  Emile Chartier
  • Events
  • Sadness
  • Opinions