Reconstruction Quotes

• I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Shoulder
  • Reconstruction

• Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.

  

  William Beveridge
  • Ignorance
  • Disease
  • Idleness

• The EU needs to ensure that the delivery of humanitarian and reconstruction aid comes closer to matching the expectations of the people of the regions.

  

  Javier Solana
  • People
  • Humanitarian
  • Delivery

• To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Process
  • Existence
  • Conceptualization

• It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Humans
  • Trouble
  • Remedy

• Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed may provide income security; it is an attack upon Want. But Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction and in some ways the easiest to attack. The others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness.

  

  William Beveridge
  • Progress
  • Ignorance
  • Policy

• Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Truth
  • Bad
  • Said

• Lamar related the Texas & Pacific bill to the national political crisis by presenting it as a means of “reconciliation” between the sections, “material reconstruction” of the South, and a way of restoring “mutual respect and affection” at a moment when those sentiments were desperately needed.

  

  C. Vann Woodward
  • Material
  • Bill
  • Reconciliation

• Its assimilation requires the reconstruction of prior theory and re-evaluation of prior fact, an intrinsically revolutionary process that is seldom completed a single man and never overnight

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Revolutionary
  • Evaluation
  • Assimilation

• Given the huge engineering and other challenges, much of the reconstruction would have to be done by private companies ... there is no government capacity for doing such things.

  

  Alan Brinkley
  • Government
  • Challenges
  • Engineering

• Scientific theories need reconstruction every now and then. If they didn't need reconstruction they would be facts, not theories. The more facts we know, the less radical become the changes in our theories. Hence they are becoming more and more constant. But take the theory of gravitation; it has not been changed in four hundred years.

  

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz
  • Change
  • Radical
  • Gravitation

• Thus these three amendments to the Constitution 13th, 14th, 15th were ratified while the ten Southern states were under martial law, and "had no law at all." The Force Acts, the four Reconstruction Acts, and the Civil Rights Act were all passed by Congress while the Southern states were not allowed to hold free elections, and all voters were under close supervision by federal troops. Even Soviet Russia has never staged such mockeries of the election procedures.

  

  Eustace Mullins
  • War
  • Constitution
  • Election

• There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Human Heart
  • Reconstruction
  • Demolition

• We succeeded in fighting terrorism - we will succeed in reconstruction.

  

  Haider al-Abadi
  • Terrorism
  • Reconstruction

• The condition of the United States positively announces the lack of substance, of unifying principle from the start: that consensus is a lie, and that the absence of consensus is a necessary condition for, not the dissolution of the political entity, and its reconstruction according to both viral and virtual principles, which, are, in practice, user-generated.

  

  Davis Schneiderman
  • Lying
  • Absence
  • Consensus

• The Arabic states have to be integrated into the Iraqi reconstruction. We need the help of the Arabic community, which understands its culture. Americans arrive, invade, occupy.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Culture
  • Community
  • Needs

• I love the mystery, the reconstruction of history, and the way past and future define each other.

  

  Elizabeth Crook
  • History
  • I Love
  • Reconstruction

• Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Evidence
  • Species
  • Acceleration

• Since historical reconstruction is a rational process, only justified and indeed possible if it involves the human reason, what we call history is the mess we call life reduced to some order. pattern and possibly purpose.

  

  Geoffrey Elton
  • History
  • Purpose
  • Justified

• I plan to be a part of Haiti's reconstruction and future.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Plans
  • Haiti
  • Reconstruction

• Reconstruction is going to add jobs and growth to the economy.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Growth
  • Jobs
  • Economy

• Collective memory, is essentially a reconstruction of the past that adapts the image of historical facts to the beliefs and spiritual needs of the present.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Memory
  • Image
  • Beliefs

• You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

  

  Kay Boyle
  • Memories
  • Chaos
  • Ruins

• Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects.

  

  Mike Simpson
  • Dollars
  • Second
  • Humanitarian

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